Meanwhile, the Uganda Joint Christian Council plans to write a joint statement addressing the leadership in Juba appealing for peace.

Bishop Onono Onweng says at the heart of this statement to be released later this week is a reiteration to the leaders to settle down and provide peace to the country.

CE – 25 – 07 – 2016 – Bishop Onono Onweng on letter

“We are targeting his excellency Salva Kiir, we are addressing Dr Riak Machar and all the leaders there including the armed forces who are fighting , we are addressing our concerns to the leadership asking them to let the people of South Sudan live in peace. God has given them authority to provide leadership can they settle down and provide leadership to the people of South Sudan.”

Meanwhile, the Uganda Joint Christian Council plans to write a joint statement addressing the leadership in Juba appealing for peace.

Bishop Onono Onweng says at the heart of this statement to be released later this week is a reiteration to the leaders to settle down and provide peace to the country.

CE – 25 – 07 – 2016 – Bishop Onono Onweng on letter

“We are targeting his excellency Salva Kiir, we are addressing Dr Riak Machar and all the leaders there including the armed forces who are fighting , we are addressing our concerns to the leadership asking them to let the people of South Sudan live in peace. God has given them authority to provide leadership can they settle down and provide leadership to the people of South Sudan.”

UN Peacekeeping Chief, Hervé Ladsous, Peace in South Sudan can only be salvaged through “a strong political and coordinated approach.”

The Security Council meeting marks the second time this week that the chamber has taken up this latest crisis in South Sudan.

Addressing the council on Wednesday, the Peace Keeping chief Herve Ladsous said concerted action by the Security Council is required.

CE – 14 – 07 – 2016 – Herve Ladsous

“We can see clearly now the results of the Parties’ deliberate attempts to stall the implementation of the peace agreement signed almost one year ago in August 2015. We can no longer afford to sit idle as the people of South Sudan bear the brunt of the intransigence of their leaders. Only a strong political and coordinated approach can salvage the peace process now. 

Mr Ladsous says that the havoc and suffering subjected on the people of South Sudan by its leaders must come to an end.

CE – 14 – 07 – 2016 – Herve Ladsous 2

“The Security Council must urgently reconsider an arms embargo. Clearly, the threat of one has done little to deter the Parties. Likewise, additional targeted sanctions on leaders and commanders blocking the implementation of the Peace Agreement must be enacted immediately. South Sudan’s never-ending life line to wreak havoc on its people must come to an end now.” 

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses the UN conference on Trade and Development, highlighting the current conflict in South Sudan as a destabilizing factor in the east African region.

Arrangements are being made to provide security escort for  Truck drivers carrying food and other merchandise to Juba.

Radio Miraya understands that hundreds of truck drivers have for more than one week been stranded at the Uganda  - South Sudan Border in Nimule, because of insecurity along the Juba – Nimule road.

The stranded trucks have created  a sudden shortage of food and other essentials in the Market. Our reporter took a stroll around Konyo Konyo market on Thursday and found that the market stalls were virtually empty.

Speaking to Miraya Breakfast show, Lt. Gen Akok Non Akok, the Director General of Customs, said plans are underway to provide armed escort to the truck drivers so they can deliver food to Juba.

CE – 22 – 07 – 2016 - Lt. Gen Akok Non Akok

“ I would like to inform the General Public that the issue is not to do with clearance. It is truck drivers who are refusing to come to Juba, due to insecurity along the Juba – Nimule Highway, so I reported the complaint to the authorities concerned and as we speak, arrangements to escort a convoy to Juba will be completed today and therefore by tomorrow more than 100 trucks will arrive in Juba, this is what I can say.”

The new guidelines come amid a public outcry,  about the decline in the weight and size of bread sold on the market.

Speaking to Radio Miraya, Gabriel Majok, Public Relations and Information Officer in the South Sudan National Bureau of standards, said the standard weight for bread is between 58 and 60 grams per loaf.

CE – 26 – 07 2016, Gabriel Majok

“The crisis that has happened in this one week or two weeks ago has really made everything to go to individual decision and that is not supposed to be as long as Juba is calm we need all the bakery owners to go back to their real size that they used to produce the bread by making sure that a bread must weigh 58 to 60 grams if you did not check the right size of the bread then we have legal measures to be taken and that is according to the law”

Majok said a team from the National Bureau of standards will work with relevant law enforcement authorities, to ensure that the guidelines are followed.