Festus Mogae delivers Impassioned Christmas Message to South Sudan

[...] "I urge each one of you to light a candle of peace in your home, allow that candle to burn and pledge a message of peace to each other and bless 2017, with a renewed spirit of forgiveness, reconciliation and healing ...” - Festus Mogae.

The chairperson of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission - JMEC, Festus Mogae, has delivered his Christmas message stressing the need for South Sudanese to walk past the shadows that have darkened the paths this year and look forward to a life free of violence.

He paid special recognition to the hundreds of thousands of South Sudanese who are spending their Christmas in refugee and internally displaced people’s camps.

Here is his message in full.