Best wishes on the occasion of independence day from the East African Community

The South Sudan Civil Society Forum (SSCSF) draws your attention to recent public statements by senior members of the SPLM, acknowledging that this revolutionary party destroyed our country. In a speech in Bor town on March 12, 2021, Hon. Kuol Manyang Juuk, a senior member of the SPLM Political Bureau, admitted that: Instead of reconstructing what was left by the war, we are destroying what was left by the war 1 . Meanwhile in a separate speech to elders in Juba on March 14, 2021, Hon. Daniel Awet Akot, also a senior member of the SPLM Political Bureau revealed that: When we call for the leadership meetings, we discuss nothing about development, about the vision of the SPLM. We discuss nothing about how to move this country forward. We discuss only our own affairs. We are always quarreling and on our necks about small issues

The South Sudan Civil Society Forum (SSCSF) writes to you following the eve of the first anniversary of the Transitional Period of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS). This letter aims to update you on what is happening with the implementation of the 2018 Peace Agreement.