{"id":40468,"date":"2025-10-15T11:53:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=40468"},"modified":"2025-10-15T11:53:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T09:53:15","slug":"kiir-commends-eastern-equatoria-for-peace-efforts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/kiir-commends-eastern-equatoria-for-peace-efforts\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiir commends Eastern Equatoria for peace efforts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Lodu William Odiya<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Salva Kiir Mayardit has yesterday commended the citizens in Eastern Equatoria state for their commitment to peace hard work and resilience.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the presidential press unit, Kiir\u2019s commendations came during a briefing by Governor Luis Lobong Lojore on the security situation in Eastern Equatoria state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Kiir commended the people of Eastern Equatoria for their commitment to peace, hard work and resilience\u201d the statement partly read.<\/p>\n<p>The statement underscored Governor Lobong has called on the national government to assist in facilitating the safe and orderly return of the returnees to their respective home areas.<\/p>\n<p>\u200e\u201d Governor Lobong, in his report to the meeting, reported that the state is peaceful after last month&#8217;s outbreak of violence in the Kapoeta town where the criminals had fired at a government office\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>It further emphasized that the Governor reassured the President that the situation has normalized since then.<\/p>\n<p>\u200eIt also stated that the people of Eastern Equatoria all condemned the attacks and had vowed to stop such acts of lawlessness from occurring again.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The people are coming together now to maintain peace and assist with stability in the region&#8221; the statement partly read.<\/p>\n<p>\u200eFurthermore, the statement underlined that Governor Lobong also reported to the President about the daily influx of South Sudanese returnees who are returning from Kakuma refugee camp in neighboring Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>\u200e<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lodu William Odiya President Salva Kiir Mayardit has yesterday commended the citizens in Eastern Equatoria state for their commitment to peace hard work and resilience. In a statement issued by the presidential press unit, Kiir\u2019s commendations came during a briefing by Governor Luis Lobong Lojore on the security situation<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/kiir-commends-eastern-equatoria-for-peace-efforts\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":40469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-easter-equatoria-state","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EAST.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40470,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40468\/revisions\/40470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}