Furthermore, the state of the country has worsened “due to floods in some areas and serious droughts in others,” he lamented. He said it appears that South Sudan is “going around in circles from one calamity to another and back again. The saddest reality is our inability to overcome the effects of these calamities and protect our people against them.”
The prelate fears that unless these problems are addressed, his people will not survive, “especially since the majority of the population (64%) are helpless youth who have no source of income, while most of the remaining 36% “They are older people.”
As president of the SCBC Commission for Integral Human Development, which brings together the Catholic bishops of Sudan and South Sudan, Bishop Hiiboro Kussala called for external support, imploring them to “not get tired of us knocking on your doors again and again.” time… because they are our only hope and, therefore, light at the end of the tunnel.”
“It is no longer about the country and its leaders, but about the people of South Sudan, who are slowly perishing,” said the bishop.