The Rev Fidon Mwombeki, All Africa Conference of Churches general secretary, has expressed concern at the slow pace of the South Sudan peace process, while highlighting that the Africa-wide ecumenical body has accompanied the people in the world’s youngest nation for many years.
His comments come amid growing fears that the September 2018 Revitalised Agreement on the Resolution of the Confiict in South Sudan was facing too many obstacles, as its key elements remained unimplemented or were lagging behind.
“I am not satisfied. I am very disappointed by lack of progress in South Sudan. The All Africa Conference of Churches has invested a lot for many years to bring peace together and bring the country together”, Mwombeki, a Tanzania Lutheran pastor, told journalists in Nairobi on August 14. “I plead with the churches there to take the lead by saying: okay, we want to be together and we reject the politics of fragmentation.”