Juba, South Sudan
Sep 18,2021 — The Chollo community in Juba under the leadership of Hon. Oyoti Adigo visited president Salva Kiir earlier this week to discuss with him wide range of issues facing Chollo community.
According to the statement by the presidential press unit, the Chollo community leader Hon Onyoti Adigo assured president Kiir that his people need peace and reconciliation with the Apadang Dinka and that a conference between the two communities will be held on time.
“The delegation assured H.E President Salva Kiir Mayardit that their people want peace and mentioned that, peace and reconciliation conference between Apadang and Chollo communities will commence soon” the statement reads.
The Chollo community leaders shared a number of grievances, mostly challenges facing their people, and president Kiir promised to resolve them.
“The delegation also raised number of issues and concerns facing chollo community and H.E President Salva Kiir Mayardit pledged to address the problems facing them”, the statement added.
Chollo is one of the largest Nilotic tribes in South Sudan living in Upper Nile region. For many decades the two communities of Chollo and Apadang have been in social stalemate over the land issue as Chollo claim that part of their ancestral land is being annexed to Apadang community by South Sudan government and mainly the capital, Malakal.
