 Welcome back and let's take you to other parts of Africa. Pope Francis began a visit to South Sudan on Friday with an impassioned plea to its fractious leaders to turn their backs on the violence, ethnic hatred and corruption that have stopped the world's youngest country from achieving peace and prosperity. South Sudan broke away from Sudan to become independent in 2011 after decades of conflict, but civil war erupted in 2013. Despite a 2018 peace deal between the two main antagonists, violence and hunger, steeped the country. Tens of thousands of people sang, drummed and isolated as the Roman Catholic leader arrived in the capital Jubal on Friday for an unprecedented joint pilgrimage of peace with its Anglican and Scottish Presbyterian counterparts. In April 2019, during the spiritual retreat, we held at the Vatican, your holiness kissed our feet and asked us to remain in peace. You also told us from your heart to move forward, that rare rush of humility did not go in vain. When you kissed our feet, my brother, Dr. Yekma Char, was outside the country. Today, both Dr. Yekma and I are seated here working collectively to implement the revitalized peace agreement we signed in 2018. We prayed together in Rome, the God who was gentle and humble in heart, the God in whom so many people of this beloved country believe now is time to say no more of this without ifs or buts, no more last shed, no more conflicts, no more violence, mutual recrimination about who is responsible for it, no more living your people at test for peace, no more destruction. It is time to build, lift the time of war behind and let the time of peace dawn.