By Al Jazeera, President Salva Kiir swore in Taban Deng Gai as first vice president of South Sudan on Tuesday, replacing Riek Machar, who hasn’t been seen nor hear from since fighting broke out earlier this month between his forces and those loyal to the president. In an exclusive interview yesterday, Machar spoke with Al […]
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By AFP, South Sudan’s president will snub a UN meeting aimed at boosting peace efforts because he feels he was summoned there like a “schoolboy”, a minister said Friday. United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival, rebel leader Riek Machar, to New York later this month in a bid to […]
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By Colum Lynch & Siobhan O’Grady | for Foreign Policy, Yielding to the threat of U.N. sanctions, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir grudgingly signed a landmark peace deal Wednesday that would cede considerable power to his bitter enemy, rebel leader Riek Machar, as part of a power-sharing arrangement aimed at ending the young country’s 20-month-long […]
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By AFP, South Sudan President Salva Kiir signed a peace accord today to end 20 months of civil war, but also issued a list of “serious reservations“, warning the deal might not last. “The current peace we are signing today has so many things we have to reject,” Kiir said at a ceremony, witnessed by regional […]
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By Sudan Tribune, South Sudan said Tuesday it was conducting consultations to unveil home-grown peace deal with the armed opposition leadership under former vice president, Riek Machar, with indications that Juba had rejected the peace compromise proposal from mediators of the East African regional bloc, IGAD and its international partners. “It’s no secret that the […]
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By Sudan Tribune, SOUTH Sudanese vice president, James Wani Igga, has called on leaders of the East African regional governments to save his country’s economy from collapse, adding his government was now ready to make peace with the armed opposition faction led by former vice president, Riek Machar. The country’s second in command has been […]
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By Sudan Tribune, AN EXTRAORDINARY summit of the heads of state and government of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which convened on Thursday, has been adjourned until Saturday in order to give the two warring parties more time to reach an agreement on a document imposed by regional leaders. The move comes after South […]
Continue ReadingBy Africa Intelligence, As the American government has distanced itself from South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir since the military-political crisis broke out there, the government in Juba decided to take on the services of two lobbyists in the United States. The purpose is to improve Juba’s image with the Americans and put its viewpoint on […]
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