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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir said he is ready to accept a peace deal to end a civil war and set up an inclusive new government.
Rebels in Africa’s youngest nation, South Sudan, have rejected a peace agreement announced on Sunday, saying it lacks enough authority to fulfill their main demands for diluting President Salva Kiir’s base of power.
The African Union (AU) has called for action regarding the situation in South Sudan, where a recent ceasefire agreement between feuding parties collapsed soon after it was reached.
A new round of peace talks is set to start in Sudan’s capital, Khartoum, with an aim to end the bloody civil war that has been gripping neighboring South Sudan for more than four years.
South Sudan says rebel leader Riek Machar cannot rejoin its government after five years of civil war in remarks condemned by his rebel group as “intended to derail the peace process.”
South Sudan’s rebel leader Riek Machar has arrived in Ethiopia for a face-to-face meeting with his arch-rival, President Salva Kiir, for the first time in two years in an effort to negotiate an end to a five-year-old civil war.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dismissed calls by the country's opposition to step down, saying there is no logic in signing a peace agreement with the opponents and then resign as president.
The foreign minister of Sudan has revealed that his country is unable to pay many of its diplomats abroad while some diplomatic missions across the world could be closed over rent problems.
South Sudan has expressed distrust of a United Nations probe into allegations of sexual abuses by Ghanaian peacekeepers against the violence-stricken civilians they were tasked with protecting at a UN camp for the internally-displaced, demanding a role in the investigation.
The latest report on human rights abuses in South Sudan's five-year civil war, released by a United Nations commission, says it has identified more than 40 senior military officials "who may bear individual responsibility for war crimes."