Oct 3, 2010 / 15:54 pm
Ahead of an important visit to the U.K., a Sudanese bishop has said he will “ring the alarm bell” regarding the situation in his country. Opportunities to prepare for the upcoming secession referendum are dwindling and there are concerns that violence will return to the ravaged land if the election does not go well.
Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala will visit London, Edinburgh and Glasgow later this month, just three months before Sudan’s referendum on the possible secession of South Sudan. The Catholic charity Aid to the Church in Need (ACN) is organizing key elements of his visit.
In a statement to ACN, Bishop Hiiboro said South Sudan faces the threat of renewed violence amid signs of a breakdown in preparations for the early January elections.
“I am coming to the great nation of the U.K. to ring the alarm bell regarding the situation in the Sudan,” commented the bishop, whose southern Diocese of Tombura-Yambio borders the Central African Republic and the Democratic Republic of Congo.