CTSAMVM chief demands recommitment to ceasefire as peace monitoring downsizes

Ceasefire body warns South Sudan peace deal under “significant strain”

By Binia Elizabeth and James Chatim The ceasefire monitoring body overseeing South Sudan’s peace agreement has warned that the country’s fragile peace process is under “significant strain,” citing escalating violence, restricted access for monitors and severe resource constraints as key challenges. Meeting after a prolonged hiatus, the Chairperson of the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism (CTSA…

CTSAMVM chief demands recommitment to ceasefire as peace monitoring downsizes

JUBA, South Sudan (Eye Radio) – Ceasefire Monitoring body Chairperson Maj Gen Teshome Anagawe Ayana issued a direct call to South Sudan’s warring parties today, demanding an immediate recommitment to the Permanent Ceasefire and an end to the "politicization" of security violations. Speaking at the Beijing Juba Hotel on Thursday, February 19, 2026, during the

Ceasefire weakens with 407 violations recorded - Radio Tamazuj

Monitors recorded 407 alleged ceasefire violations between August 2025 and January 2026 as South Sudan’s fragile peace agreement came under increasing strain amid renewed clashes and rising insecurity, the country’s ceasefire monitoring body said Thursday. Teshome Anagawe Ayana, chairperson of the Ceasefire and Transitional Security Arrangements Monitoring and Verification Mechanism, told a technical committee meeting in Juba that the 2018 peace…