{"id":52910,"date":"2025-02-10T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/igad-appoints-new-chair-for-south-sudan-peace-monitoring\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T06:52:45","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T06:52:45","slug":"igad-appoints-new-chair-for-south-sudan-peace-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/igad-appoints-new-chair-for-south-sudan-peace-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"IGAD appoints new chair for South Sudan peace monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Owinow, a retired major-general, replaces Charles Tai Gituai, who served since 2020. His appointment comes at a crucial time, with key provisions of the revitalized peace agreement still pending ahead of South Sudan\u2019s elections in December 2026.<\/p>\n<p>With over four decades in military and diplomatic roles, Owinow previously served as Kenya\u2019s High Commissioner to Uganda (2020-2022) and as Deputy Force Commander for the African Union Mission in Somalia (2019-2020).<\/p>\n<p>RJMEC has urged swift financial and political action to implement critical reforms, including unifying forces, to meet the extended election deadline.<\/p>\n<p>In its latest report, the body emphasized the need for stronger political will to secure lasting peace.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-81425\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rjmec-leader.jpg\" alt=\"Kenya\u2019s George Aggrey Owinow has been appointed as the new chair of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC), the body overseeing South Sudan\u2019s peace process.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has appointed Kenya\u2019s George Aggrey Owinow as the new chair of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC), the body overseeing South Sudan\u2019s peace process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000081424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081424,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rjmec-leader.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rjmec-leader.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rjmec-leader.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rjmec-leader.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rjmec-leader.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rjmec-leader.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52910"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52910"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}