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South Sudan: Floods and Uncertainty About Peace Restrict the Return of Displaced Families in Bor (16.12.2019)

Nyarien Ochiek Yot and her five children fled from their village in the far north of South Sudan to the United Nations protection site in Bor when civil war erupted, and her husband was killed in the fighting. Six years on, her family wants to return to their home in Mankien as peace descends on the country.rBut she is nervous about whether the peace deal will hold in the wake of yet another delay in the implementation process.rThe Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan met with Nyarien Ochiek Yot and other families who want to leave the protection site. He promised to help facilitate their travel home when they are ready to go but understands their uncertainty.rrWhile the peace process is progressing well between warring groups locally, devastating floods that struck the region last month are proving to be another disincentive for displaced families wanting to leave protection camps and return home. Tukuls (huts), crops and basic services, like water supplies, have been damaged or destroyed by the rising water. Local authorities are asking for help from the international community.rrHumanitarian support and the acceleration of the peace process are vital to ensuring that displaced families have the trust and confidence they need to leave UN camps so they can rebuild their homes and lives in their own communities.

The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, met with Nyarien Ochiek Yot and other families who want to leave the protection site to hear their concerns.

JUBA, South Sudan, December 16, 2019 – Nyarien Ochiek Yot and her five children fled their village in the far north of South Sudan to the United Nations protection site in Bor when her husband was killed during fierce fighting at the start of the civil war.Six years on, her family wants to return to their home in Mankien as peace slowly descends on the country.

But she is nervous about whether the peace deal and ceasefire will hold in the wake of yet another delay in the implementation process.

“The people of South Sudan, including me, are hoping for peace. Peace is the only thing that can make this country stable,” says Nyarien Ochiek Yot. “But I do not trust the politicians and the military because they are the ones that always drag people to peace and, when they see peace, they drag people to war again. It feels hopeless.”

A peace deal was signed by the warring parties in September 2018. However, the implementation process has been slow with the plan to form a new transitional government now twice delayed.

The Head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, David Shearer, met with Nyarien Ochiek Yot and other families who want to leave the protection site to hear their concerns. He promised to help facilitate their travel home when they are ready to go but understands their uncertainty.

“People are anxious about the peace process. I think they would like to see more progress and, they told me, you know 100 days is not a long time,” says David Shearer. “We need to make rapid progress. We have to try really hard to put the political will in and move things forward.” 

Despite Nyarien Ochiek Yot’s concerns about the peace process, she has enough confidence to return to her home and rebuild her life.

While the peace process between warring groups locally is progressing well, devastating floods that struck the region last month are proving to be another disincentive for displaced families wanting to leave the camps and return home.

Homes, crops and basic services, like water supplies, have been damaged or destroyed by the rising water. Local authorities are asking for help from the international community.

“We need services. We need medication. We need food and plastic sheets as well as mosquito nets,” says Jonglei Governor, Maker Thiong Maal. “These are the things that we need now because, in the country here, we don’t have any factories to produce the goods that we need to cover the gaps. We are very vulnerable and hope the world community will stand with us.”

Humanitarian agencies have launched a massive emergency response plan, reaching hundreds of thousands of people in need across the Jonglei region.

But efforts to implement the peace agreement also need to be accelerated so that people have the trust and confidence they need to go home.

“No one I’ve spoken to wants to go back to fighting. In fact, they’re absolutely adamant they don’t want to fight,” says David Shearer. “I think what we’ve got to do now is take the voices from here and tell those who are negotiating down in Juba to move forward because people want to go back to their homes and get on with their lives.”

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Zimbabwe: Short journey from being the Second Lady of the Republic to become a jailbird!

In Harare and in Zimbabwe these days, you got stay loyal to the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and not sway away from the ones running the country. In this regard, the former second lady, the estranged and planning divorce, Mary Mubaiwa is now under scrutiny and legal jeopardy.

Certainly, the ex-model and former chairperson of Miss Zimbabwe Trust knows what is at stake. Because, when big-men fall, they fall hard. She was involved in a marriage to the Vice-President and former Army Commander Constantino Chiwenga. That is not just a random high ranking official, that is one of the great henchmen of the Robert Mugabe Era and his presence still commands authority to this day. Even if the health of Constantino has been failing and his shape isn’t as strong as it used too be. After months away in China for health care treatment for his illness(es).

With that in mind, the fall from grace is of huge gravitas. Just like the ZANU-PF raiding and taking away farms and estates from the Mugabe family. The ZANU-PF and their authorities are now retaliating against Mary Mubaiwa, the former wife of Chiwenga. Because she dared to leave him.

Already, Constantino married his second wife, while leaving his first one Jocelyn, who sued him back in 2012. Therefore, this sort of legal drama around his marriages isn’t new. But then it was a woman scorned retaliating against him. While there is also speculations, that Mary never really was divorced from the marriage too, when she married the Army Commander. Which makes the second divorce of both them look weird in itself. That a high ranking official, who supposed to gain trust and show grace. However, this is just foul play by all parties.

Now, Mary has several counts of exporting currency, fraud and money laundering. The memo for 14th December 2019 is already online and it’s devastating. Well, surely like in the past, Chiwenga can gag the media in a court order if he likes. He did that in 2012 and certainly can accomplish the same thing again. Maybe his not as strong or have the ability to land another dime now. That’s why his retaliating now, instead of it being the wife.

Because, of the power of the VP and his role within the army, he could get this done. He could investigate and find questionable actions done. However, she was surely doing this all under his roof. So, it is not like she did it as a ghost and secret. Mary did it all while in the arms and around the VP. Even as he was gone for a few months, they were surely talking and communicating. Not like he would not talk to his wife from China would be surreal.

There are also rumours and speculations, that she tried to poison him and also unplugged the oxygen, when he was seriously ill. While there been also reports earlier in the year, that she have kids, whose DNA tests proves those were not of Chiwenga, but from another father. Meaning, she cheated during the marriage with him. Also, speculation that Chiwenga is trying to get back his first estranged wife, who now lives in Luton, United Kingdom. We don’t know if that is true.

There are also rumours that Chiwenga himself ordered the arrest yesterday after a hostile family meeting on Friday. Certainly, he knew how to pin charges and create a legal jeopardy for someone. This been done before and now its Mary turn. As she hasn’t complied to what Constantino was looking for.

What we are seeing is a second marriage falling apart for two people. They are both in power, they have money and mansions, they have riches, but they don’t have happiness. It cannot be ideal, when the material wealth means more than the care for each other.

Constantino was married to marry over 8 years. In questionable way, where he scorned his ex-wife, who even fled Zimbabwe. While Mary left the ex-footballer, who was playing in Cyprus at the time, who claimed they we’re not divorced at the time she married Chiwenga. The same claim, the ex-wife had about Chiwenga. Clearly, the shaking up was a quick-fix and a rush of both parties.

We are now seeing dirty laundry for the second time in the career of General Chiwenga. He has been able to destroy both of his marriage. The first one, most likely because of greener pastures with a ex-model. The other is destroyed, because his not getting what he likes. This is certainly not how it supposed to be. Not that Mary is innocent, she knew what she was getting into and if some of the rumours are true. Than, she has acting evil against her husband. Which is not right against anyone, not even the henchmen of tyrants and big-men of ZANU-PF who has no disregard for human rights violations. They do it every time they can.

Chiwenga only does this to show, that he can either make you or break you. Mary Mubaiwa, if she has broken the law, than she should carry for those sins. But if these are pinned on her, because she humiliated and enraged the General, than its all wrong. Chiwenga should also carry himself differently, as he has now lost two woman. While being in power and having the ability to be a good husband. Instead, his greed and his own ego has overpowered him.

The ZANU-PF government is rotten, just like the marriages of Chiwenga. They are just a microscope of what this government represent. If he can arrest his own wife, who he plans to divorce. Than, you know he can go against anyone. Surely, this hurt his pride, but his own conduct in getting to the second one was foul play. He knows this and Jocelyn knows this.

When you have rigged yourself, at one point the house of cards will fall. In this regard, the ex-model and former second lady of the Republic is now detained and behind bars. Mary certainly didn’t think this was her way.

However, she should have looked at everything happening to Grace Mugabe. Than, she would have learned and taken a lesson. Instead, she is now played and losing both the wealth of the General and also the privileges of elite. She’s now more alone and has to hope the appointed government judges doesn’t drop her to rot on the charges. Peace.