September 6, 2015 (JUBA) - South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has unexpectedly warned officers of the army of punitive actions against them if they continued to violate ceasefire in the peace agreement he signed on 26 August with the former vice president, Riek Machar, revealing that there are some of his officers whose actions aimed at derailing the peace deal by taking advantage of reservations of his government over the accord.
He said people who pretended to be loyal to him and his government were behind the ceasefire violations.
“There are people who want to take advantage of our genuine concerns and reservations. They are pretending to be conducting themselves as nationalists and they aren't acting with loyalty. These people are coming out, and any officer, no matter what position of service, showing lack of discipline will have to answer,” president Kiir told a tribal Jieng [Dinka] Council of Elders on Sunday.
“We have signed the peace [agreement] and we have to show our commitment, so that we are not portrayed as not interested in ending this war. They want to turn our people against us. We have to observe ceasefire requirements,” said the head of state in his first public reaction on ceasefire violations.
President Kiir made the comments admitting sabotage by some of his officers two days after the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) reported that government's attack helicopters attacked rebel positions on the west bank of the Nile near Malakal, capital of the oil-rich Upper Nile state.
Also the armed opposition faction of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) led by former vice president, Machar, alleged that they destroyed a number of war barges and gunboats which attacked their positions.
However, government spokesman, Michael Makuei Lueth, in an indirect refusal of the claim said one of the war barges exploded when a careless soldier lit a cigarette causing the explosion.
But president Kiir in his remarks said the barges came under attack by the rebel forces when they attempted to cross opposition controlled areas in Jonglei and Unity states.
US secretary of state, John Kerry, also called the South Sudanese leader on phone on Thursday, urging him to order forces to stop attacking rebel positions.
Kiir also told members of the Dinka elders, his tribesmen that the world was working to isolate his government unless they abided by the ceasefire and fully implement the peace deal with the armed opposition faction led by Machar.
“There are people in this country and in the region who are working to isolate us from our people by portraying themselves to be the ones who care about them and they are the ones who feel the suffering of our people more than us whom they have elected,” he further lamented.
“That was why they designed the peace [agreement] in the way that if we reject, they then go around the world and say look, they have rejected to sign the peace to stop the war and continue to claim they represent the people they have refused to stop the war and to end the suffering of their people,” he added.
The president, according to a presidential aide, made the remarks at his residence on Sunday during a meeting with some members of the Dinka council of elders who visited him to update him on the outcome of the meeting they held on Saturday where they discussed how they could reconcile and harmonise with the president their views which opposed key provisions in the peace deal.
President Kiir faces a division within his government as some senior political and army officials have been rejecting and criticizing the peace deal, with fears that they could be the ones that encourage ceasefire violations to try to spoil the implementation of the IGAD Plus compromise agreement.
United Nations Security Council is working on a US-led draft of sanctions that would be imposed on party seen to be violating the ceasefire or spoil implementation of the peace agreement.
Observers say Juba made a diplomatic mistake when president Kiir refused to comply with the 17 August deadline to sign the IGAD compromise peace agreement, making him a troublemaker in the eyes of the international community, while the opposition leader, Machar, came out as peace maker and earned respect in won the diplomatic manoeuver when he complied and signed the agreement unilaterally.
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September 6, 2015 (KHARTOUM) - Sudan's interior ministry and police officials from the United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) on Sunday have discussed the situation in the contested area of Abyei.
The deputy director-general of police, Lieut. General Omer Mohamed Ali has discussed with the UNISFA senior police adviser, Mohamed Suraji, the security situation in Abyei in the presence of the Abyei dossier official at Sudan's police, Maj. General Salah al-Din Nur al-Dai'm, and the head of the general-directorate of international relations, Maj. General Abdallah al-Amin al-Shingaiti.
The police press office has quoted Nur al-Dai'm as saying the meeting aimed to coordinate efforts and to ensure complementarity of roles between the two sides in order to achieve security and stability in the area.
He said the two sides reviewed efforts and tasks carried out by the UN Police (UNPOL) to maintain security in accordance with Abyei Protocol, adding the meeting urged all parties to speed up the establishment of the Abyei police force to carry out its functions and duties to achieve security in the region.
The South Sudanese side refuses the establishment of a joint administration and a police force in line with the 20 June 2011 agreement. Juba propose to go beyond this deal and hold the referendum on the future of the region.
However, the police official added the two sides agreed to establish a link between Sudan's police and the UNPOL in Abyei to control any security breaches in the area.
According to Nur al-Dai'm, Sudan's police promised to provide assistance to the UNPOL at the federal and state levels in order to carry out its duties.
Abyei was scheduled to hold a referendum to determine the fate of the border region in January 2011. However the vote was suspended because the two countries continue to disagree over the participation of the Misseriya nomads in the process.
UNISFA's establishment came after the government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) reached an agreement in Addis Ababa, to demilitarize Abyei and let Ethiopian troops to monitor the area.
Composed mainly of Ethiopian troops, the 5,000 strong force was established following the seizure of Abyei by the Sudanese army in May 2011 after clashes with the southern army (SPLA) in the area.
The operation has been tasked with monitoring the flashpoint border between north and south and facilitating the delivery of humanitarian aid, and is authorized to use force in protecting civilians and humanitarian workers in Abyei.
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Két rajtaütés során tíz rendőrt gyilkoltak meg fegyveresek pénteken Tádzsikisztánban, a főváros közelében. A Dusanbe közelében elkövetett támadásokban öt rendőr megsebesült. A rendőrőrsök elleni rajtaütéseket volt rendőrök és katonák hajtották végre.
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Az Aranybarázdán induló traktoristák öt kategóriában versenyeztek, volt még tolatási verseny pótkocsival, felvonultak a lovas fogatok is, és bemutatták az érdeklődőknek a valamikor lóvontatású ekékkel történt szántást is. A legerősebbek számára most is megszervezték az ekevasdobó versenyt, amelyet immár nem először Mladen Popov nyert meg, aki csaknem húsz méterre dobta el az ekevasat. A verseny helyezettjei minden kategóriában serlegeket kaptak, valamint a rendezvényt támogató cégek ajándékait, vetőmagot, növényvédő szereket stb.
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Az egyvasú ekével szántóknál 1. Igor Kalinić, 2. Serfőző Ferenc, 3. Varga Kornél, mindhárman Zentáról. Kétvasú eke: 1. Burány Péter, 2. Cakó Gábor, 3. László László, Zenta. Háromvasú eke: 1. Horváth Kátai Szabolcs, Zenta, 2. Horváth Kátai Csaba, Zenta, 3. Tóth Bagi Adrián, Tornyos. Négyvasú eke: 1. Varga Rudolf, Valkaisor, 2. Pósa Zoltán, Magyarkanizsa, 3. Aranyos Sándor, Mohol. Forgatós ekék: 1. Burány Tibor, Zenta, 2. Körmöczi Attila, Orom, 3. Kocsis Sándor, Mohol. A legfiatalabb versenyző a 13 éves Igor Kalinić volt Zentáról. A pótkocsitolatás versenyét Horváth Kátai Szabolcs nyerte.