South Sudan Peace

South Sudan’s latest peace effort stalls, UN experts say

December 1, 2020 Breaking News, News, Newsbeat, South Sudan, South Sudan Peace

South Sudan First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir look away from the camera during the signing of security arrangement in Khartoum, Sudan (Photo credit: SSNN)

Edith M. Lederer Tanzania, The Associated Press December 1, 2020(SSNN) — UN experts say South Sudan’s latest peace effort has stalled, with the coalition government formed in February failing to meet deadlines and President Salva Kiir locking opposition leader and now First Vice-President Riek Machar “out of the government’s decision-making process.” The panel of experts said it was told by […]

Will the interim gov’t of South Sudan be formed by 12th November 2019?

October 13, 2019 Opinions

By Luka Biong Deng Kuol Oct 14th, 2019 (SSNN)-It is almost one month remaining to form a national government as per the 2018 peace agreement. Five issues are critical for the formation of national government; namely the overwhelming desire of people of South Sudan for peace, the security arrangements including security of major towns such as Juba and unification of […]

“We will not form unity government by November” 12 – SPLM-IO official

October 5, 2019 Breaking News, IGAD, South Sudan

The main armed opposition group, SPLM/A-IO, will not be part of a Transitional Government of National Unity expected to be formed on Nov. 12 – if all critical outstanding tasks are not fully implemented, said an opposition official on Saturday. “We are not ready to form a government on November 12th if the rest of the security arrangements & The […]

MEETING OF THE PARTIES TO THE R-ARCSS HELD IN ADDIS

May 2, 2019 JMEC, Press Releases

PRESS RELEASE, May 2nd, 2019(SSNN) — The first day of a meeting of the Parties to the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (R-ARCSS) took place on Thursday 2 May 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Addressing the participants (READ FULL STATEMENT HERE), the Interim Chairperson of the Reconstituted Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission […]