VICE President Samia Suluhu Hassan has said Tanzania will continue to broker and ensure peace is restored in South Sudan, but also called on the two warring parties to respect the peace agreement signed in Arusha in 2015.
The peace agreement signed in Arusha
focused on ending the conflict between the parties and embarks on
reunification and restoring peace in the youngest nation in East Africa
and the continent.
Vice President Samia made the remarks
yesterday in Dar es Salaam when receiving a special message from South
Sudan government on behalf of President John Pombe Magufuli who is in
the capital city Dodoma.
According to a statement from the Vice
President Office, Samia stressed on peace dialogues as the best solution
in seeking solutions to put an end to conflicts between the parties
which have resulted in untold suffering and loss of lives and property
in South Sudan.
“Tanzania will be in the forefront to
ensure peace and tranquility is restored in South Sudan, so that the
public can go back to building the nation,” she said.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir sent
the special message through his Minister of Trade and Industries,
Stephen Dhieu Dau Ayik to Tanzania, expressing his appreciation to Dr
Magufuli and Tanzania in general in efforts to restore peace in the
country.
The South Sudan minister said peace
continues to improve in his country, following ending of battle between
military officers loyal to President Kiir and former Vice President Riek
Machar
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