WASHINGTON - South Sudanese peace activist Rita Lopidia Abraham received the 2020 Women Building Peace Award on Tuesday from the United States Institute of Peace (USIP) based in Washington, D.C.Abraham told South Sudan In Focus that her struggle for peace in South Sudan has been an uphill task full of threats from men at the negotiating table. Part of the award will go towards helping orphans and street children in the South Sudan capital, Juba,” Lopidia said. Abraham, who is in her mid-30s, has been a delegate at the South Sudan peace talks in Addis Ababa and Khartoum. She signed a peace agreement in 2018 in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on behalf of the South Sudan Women Coalition for Peace, an umbrella group of 50 women's organizations in South Sudan and the diaspora. She said the leaders of South Sudan are lagging in implementing key provisions of the peace agreement.

Source: Ethiopian News September 16, 2020 01:30 UTC