Communication Office

PRESS RELEASE

(For Immediate Publication)

9 February 2025, Juba, South Sudan

ARRIVAL OF NEW INTERIM CHAIRPERSON OF RECONSTITUTED JOINT MONITORING AND EVALUATION COMMISSION (RJMEC) 

The Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (RJMEC) welcomes the appointment of the new RJMEC Interim Chairperson, Ambassador Major General (rtd) George Aggrey Owinow.

Amb Maj Gen Owinow was nominated by the Government of Kenya, and subsequently endorsed by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD). He will succeed the outgoing Chairperson Ambassador Major General (rtd) Charles Tai Gituai, who served in the same capacity since August 2020.

Amb Maj Gen Owinow has had a distinguished military and diplomatic career spanning more than four decades, serving in different security and diplomatic missions in Africa.

Amb Maj Gen Owinow brings with him recent experience as Kenya’s High Commissioner to the Republic of Uganda (2020-2022), and as Deputy Force Commander for the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) (2019-2020).

With just two weeks to the beginning of the extended Transitional Period, his arrival comes at an important juncture of the R-ARCSS, where a range of critical pending tasks need to be implemented to pave the way for elections in December 2026.

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