The Standard
By David Ochamiin Juba
South Sudan is warming up for the East African Community once the January 9 referendum is concluded.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardiit, who is also Sudan’s First Vice President, told a Kenyan MPs’ delegation to Juba an independent South Sudan would certainly join the East African Community and foster friendly ties with its new neighbours.
Twenty seven MPs, including six assistant ministers and chairmen of the Public Accounts, Public Investment and Education committees of Kenya’s Parliament, are on a fact finding mission of the build-up and preparation for the vote that will determine if the South gains autonomy from Khartoum Government.
They are holding meetings with key officials in the region, including its President and Parliament.
South Sudan’s civil society leaders, spearheading the separatist campaign, said Kenya, which mid-wifed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in Nairobi in 2005 and whose final stage is the referendum, should ensure a free and timely vote.
Assistant Minister Peter Munya said the referendum would offer South Sudanese an opportunity to "reclaim your human dignity" and must "go ahead as agreed without equivocation". Read More
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