Some South Sudanese female activists suggested to deprive country’s men fighting in the civil war of sex until they lay down arms.

South Sudan rebel soldiers. Credit: The Associated Press

According to AFP, the women striving for peace made a suggestion after around 90 females, with several members of the country’s parliament among them, had met in capital Juba to discuss the means of reaching reconciliation in South Sudan.

The major outcome of the talks was reportedly to “mobilise all women in South Sudan to deny their husbands conjugal rights until they ensure that peace returns.”

It was officially made known in the statement released today, October 23. Other suggestion was to meet the wives of President Salva Kiir and his archrival chief Riek Machar to join them in search for peace “by impressing upon their husbands to stop the war”.

South Sudan has seen thousands of death and mass fleeing caused by the almost year-long battles between government troops, mutinous soldiers and tribal militia forces.

In the war-torn country civilians are being murdered even in hospitals and churches, with around 100,000 people currently sheltering in squalid UN peacekeeping bases for fear of the lives.


Representative of the South Sudan Peace and Reconciliation Commission, Tobias Atari Okori, stressed that people suffer badly and are desperate to see the war end.

According to him children, women and elderly people are suffering most.

The UN special envoy on sexual violence Zainab Bangura expressed shock over the high level of rape and added that the warring parties would constantly break promises made in the course of international meetings.

It was reported by Reuters earlier this month that the locals might face increasing rates of famine by March of the next year unless the war stops, even despite the rendered international aid.