Ethiopian Review

Addis Ababa, (WIC) — The Kenyan government backs the full implementation of the Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement which brokered a truce between warring factions in Sudan.

Prime Minister Raila Odinga said the agreement signed between the Northern Arabs and the majority Christians in the south of the troubled country was crucial to lasting peace in the east African region.

He said the Kenyan government which was instrumental in bringing the rival forces to round table talks in 2005 was concerned about the plight of many innocent lives which were shuttered during the conflict.

“We sympathize with the people of southern Sudan for what they have gone through and that is why nobody should sabotage the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement,” Odinga said.

Odinga said Kenyans were eager to see through the eventual freedom of all native African communities in the continent.

He assured the Sudanese people that the Kenyan government was determined to foster bilateral ties with Sudan to activate faster development and economic growth in the region.

Odinga said plans were underway to construct railway link to Juba, capital of southern Sudan from the proposed Lamu free port in northeast Kenya to open up the region to the international waters and woo investment along the transit routes through which the communication network would pass.