Note from Sudan Watch Editor: Who knows where the funds are sitting, maybe used to pay the soldiers and civil servants who were not paid for six months. These two men seem shameless, pity IGAD can't put them on trial for corruption. They are ex-rebels with much blood on their hands, they could not care less about 7M South Sudanese people facing humanitarian catastrophe, 2M facing starvation from famine.
President Salva Kiir, right, of South Sudan shakes hands with Riek Machar after concluding a peace deal to end the conflict in the country in September 2018.
Article from The East African (Nairobi)
By John Adukata
Dated 22 August 2019
South Sudan: IGAD Urges Kiir to Disburse Peace Deal Funds
Regional bloc Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) has asked South Sudan President Salva Kiir to disburse the balance of the pledged $100 million to speed up the implementation of the peace agreement.
Igad, which brokered the peace agreement, urged Juba "to be transparent and put in place accountability mechanisms in the use of funds for the implementation of the peace agreement."
The bloc also called on rival leaders -- President Kiir and Riek Machar -- to set a face-to face meeting to resolve outstanding issues.
The government had earlier pledged to release the funds towards the deal's implementation but cash is yet to be paid out.
The Reconstituted Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) reported that between April and July, only $6.5 million had been disbursed for security arrangements.
South Sudan has been under pressure from the international community to use oil revenue to finance the peace process.
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