Displaced South Sudanese hope that peace would be brought by the pope’s presence
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Omar Haddad
- . January 27, 2023
- . Update: January 27, 2023 9:06 pm
Mayen Galuak hopes that Pope Francis’ visit to the nation’s capital city next week will motivate political leaders to finally restore peace, enabling him to return home after nearly a decade in a refugee camp in Juba, South Sudan.
Three days after the fighting started in 2013, the 44-year-old entered the UN camp, which was only a few kilometres from his home, in search of safety.
He has since observed how South Sudan’s government have made and broken peace agreements, how militias have carried out and denied ethnic cleansing, and how the country’s ongoing violence has driven some regions into hunger.
Mayen Galuak hopes that Pope Francis’ visit to the nation’s capital city next week will motivate political leaders to finally restore peace, enabling him to return home after nearly a decade in a refugee camp in Juba, South Sudan.
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Three days after the fighting started in 2013, the 44-year-old entered the UN camp, which was only a few kilometres from his home, in search of safety.
He has since observed how South Sudan’s government have made and broken peace agreements, how militias have carried out and denied ethnic cleansing, and how the country’s ongoing violence has driven some regions into hunger.
