{"id":25520,"date":"2022-10-11T16:41:42","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day"},"modified":"2022-10-11T17:03:09","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T17:03:09","slug":"yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day","title":{"rendered":"Yei River County declares Saturday \u2018cultural day\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The Commissioner of Yei River County, Aggrey Cyrus Kanyikwa, declared Saturday as a cultural day for peace and coexistence among communities.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner remarked on the cultural dance organised on Saturday that brought more them 15 cultural groups together to display their cultural practices.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI take the honour to announce this declaration to uphold Saturday of every week to be a traditional dance day in Yei River County in order to remind the future generations that our cultures are instruments of peace, not violence among ourselves\u201d Aggrey declared<\/p>\n<p>He added that various South Sudanese communities and tribes in Yei would use the day to exhibit their traditional cultural practices through songs and dance as means of peaceful coexistence among them.<\/p>\n<p>The commissioner added that the main aim is to promote social cohesion and mitigate conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the purpose of the Saturday festival was to strengthen peaceful coexistence and the spirit of a good neighbourhood.<\/p>\n<p>He underpinned the need to maintain and preserve cultures arguing that failure to do such would spoil the peace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have registered conflicts with those who invade us and enforce their own ideology upon our grandparents,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. The Commissioner of Yei River County, Aggrey Cyrus Kanyikwa, declared Saturday as a cultural day for peace and coexistence among communities. The commissioner remarked on the cultural dance organised on Saturday that brought more them 15 cultural groups together to display their cultural practices. \u201cI take the honour to announce this declaration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":25519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[234,265,3594,233,3595],"class_list":["post-25520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-cultural-day","tag-south-sudan","tag-yei-river-county"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Yei River County declares Saturday \u2018cultural day\u2019 - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Commissioner of Yei River County, Aggrey Cyrus Kanyikwa, declared Saturday as a cultural day for peace and coexisten ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Yei River County declares Saturday \u2018cultural day\u2019\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Commissioner of Yei River County, Aggrey Cyrus Kanyikwa, declared Saturday as a cultural day for peace and coexisten ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-11T16:41:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-11T17:03:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_30-6345a1b3c08ae.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"960\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"540\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Yei River County declares Saturday \u2018cultural day\u2019\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-11T16:41:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-11T17:03:09+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_30-6345a1b3c08ae.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"Cultural Day\",\"South-Sudan\",\"Yei River County\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"culture and art\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/yei-river-county-declares-saturday-cultural-day\",\"name\":\"Yei River County declares Saturday \u2018cultural day\u2019 - 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