The world’s youngest nation, South Sudan has been torn by fighting between forces loyal to Kiir and rebels allied with Machar, his former deputy, since December 2013 and the violence has imploded along ethnic lines.
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South Sudan’s war largely pits Kiir’s Dinka followers against Machar’s Nuer allies.
“We are obviously deeply concerned by President Kiir’s comments regarding journalists earlier this week, and we call on him to disavow those words”, State Department spokesman John Kirby said Thursday.
Powerful rebel general Peter Gadet and other key commanders last week accused Machar of seeking power, and said they would not recognize any deal.
The claims of both sides could not be independently verified.
Speaking separately, the Western Bahr el Ghazal State Governor Rizik Zackaria Hassan said President Kiir would only sign the peace deal if the terms are agreeable to the South Sudanese government.
“In his history-making address at the African Union in Addis Ababa, President Obama made clear that the worldwide community expected the peace agreement to be signed by August 17th, but now that deadline has slipped”, says Noah Gottschalk, a senior humanitarian policy adviser at the global aid group Oxfam. More than 10,000 people have been killed so far and at least 1.4 million people displaced, according to the United Nations refugee agency. A U.S. Security Council diplomat, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about the draft, later said China “has been playing a very constructive role”.
Aguer, however, said the government was in control of Pageri.
The plan also requires setting up commissions, passing legislation, setting up donor funding and integrating the military – all on “extremely tight timelines”, said Lyman. One of his ministers had escribed the peace accord as a “sell-out.”
“Whenever the parties were about to narrow the gap, they would be sent back for consultations”.
“The Ugandan government knows how strenuous it is to achieve peace between belligerents, especially when the belligerents have big egos and when those belligerents put their personal egos above national interests”, Ugandan government spokesman Shaban Bantariza said in Kampala.
Yet after that deadline came and went Monday with Kiir demanding the extra time to examine the agreement, the White House didn’t issue a public statement on the delay until Tuesday afternoon.
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“We have had a lot of time”.
