South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed on Thursday to form a unity government, a long-delayed step towards ending six years of war. RiekMachar SouthSudan SalvaKiir RebelLeader UnityGovernment
In this file photo taken on December 17, 2019 South Sudanese President Salva Kiir , South Sudan’s opposition leader Riek Machar and Mohamed Hamdan Daglo ”Hemeti”, Sudan’s deputy head of the Transitional Military Council, hold hands together as they speak to media after their peace talk at the State House in Juba, South Sudan.
“We have agreed to form the government in two days on 22nd February. We are still discussing on other things and I am hopeful we will resolve them all,” Machar said after meeting Kiir. But it has been delayed twice by failure to move forward on crucial issues such as forming a unified army, carving out-state borders and creating a protection force to assure Machar’s security.“I have taken the responsibility of protection, as the unified forces are still under training,” he said.
Experts have warned against rushing into a new unity government before all the outstanding issues are resolved, saying it could lead to disaster once again. Kiir this month said he would compromise by cutting the current 32 regional states to 10 — but Machar resisted the addition of three “administrative areas”.
The commission said these elites had gone so far as to “deliberately starve” civilians in pursuit of their war.
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