JUBA – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit has called South Sudanese to unite and reject any attempts to divide the country along tribal lines.
In his keynote address during national prayer breakfast in Juba on Saturday, Kiir called on South Sudanese to reject division, tribalism, and embrace dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation.
“I am urging those in positions of authority to serve with honesty, humility and accountability as they work for the nation, we can do this by rejecting division, tribalism, and embrace dialogue, forgiveness and reconciliation,” Kiir said.
The first-ever national prayer breakfast was held under the theme “Blessed is the nation whose God is the lord, the people He Chose for His inheritance.”
Kiir said the national prayer breakfast aimed to seek God’s guidance to foster peace in the country.
“It is with this hope for the better country that I am calling upon South Sudanese from all religious background to be champion of peace,” he said.
He called upon politicians to revisit the country’s policy and work hard to address challenges facing the country.
“Let us be guided by integrity in all we do and seek God’s guidance in our efforts to protect everybody and even in our allocation of our resources.”
Kiir also urged those in positions of authority to serve the country with honesty, humility and accountability.
“I am appealing to all religious leaders, our public servants and all our citizens to prayer to God to give us wisdom as we work for peace and unity.”
For his part, Dr, James Wani Igga, Vice President for Economic Cluster hailed President Kiir for hosting national prayers breakfast.
“As we end this year, 2025, we shall all thank the president, a lot of encouragement including that the country is entering into elections,” said Igga.
Igga urged citizens to prepare for elections slated for December 2026,
“All citizens should therefore wake up and begin preparing. This will be peaceful, credible and play on playground.”
He urged citizens to embrace peace, unity and love rather to hate, saying hate and revenge killing is destroying the country.
Cardinal Gabriel Zubeir Wako, Archbishop of Emeritus of Khartoum said, “We are afraid to ask God so that even when we spend the whole day praying for peace that fear come there as something is going to prevent prayers from being listened to.”
