{"id":4330,"date":"2025-04-17T12:47:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:47:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4330"},"modified":"2025-04-17T12:47:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T10:47:46","slug":"vice-president-discusses-challenges-facing-the-disarmament-demobilization-and-reintegration-ddr-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/?p=4330","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Discusses Challenges Facing the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>Juba: Alnaeim Mubarak Kuol<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan and Chair of the Service Cluster, <strong>Josephine Lagu Yanga<\/strong>, held a meeting on Tuesday with the <strong>Chairperson of the DDR Commission<\/strong>, <strong>Ayuen Alier Jongoor<\/strong>, and his accompanying delegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, the DDR leadership <strong>reviewed ongoing activities, highlighted key challenges, and outlined the main obstacles hindering the implementation of their mandate<\/strong>. They also presented <strong>their future plans<\/strong>, with a particular focus on the <strong>screening of soldiers at cantonment sites<\/strong> and <strong>strategies for reintegrating DDR personnel into civilian life<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vice President Lagu Yanga reaffirmed her <strong>full commitment to supporting the Commission<\/strong>, noting that she would <strong>escalate these concerns to the relevant authorities<\/strong>, especially the <strong>National Transitional Committee (NTC)<\/strong>, for further consideration and follow-up. She also <strong>praised the Commission&#8217;s vital role in implementing the peace agreement<\/strong>, particularly in relation to <strong>security arrangements<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As part of efforts to strengthen and develop the Commission\u2019s work, the Vice President proposed the <strong>organization of a national DDR conference<\/strong>. This conference would bring together <strong>representatives from DDR commissions across the country<\/strong>, as well as <strong>government partners and regional and international experts<\/strong>, to <strong>discuss challenges and exchange experiences aimed at enhancing the performance of DDR institutions<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She affirmed her <strong>determination to support and help realize this proposed national conference<\/strong> and to work toward making it a reality on the ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juba: Alnaeim Mubarak Kuol Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan and Chair of the Service Cluster, Josephine Lagu Yanga, held a meeting on Tuesday with the Chairperson of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4332,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4330\/revisions\/4332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derawetmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}