S Sudan warring factions sign deal to end civil war
The South Sudanese president and opposition leader have reached a deal to end the deadly civil war in the African country.
On Wednesday, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and the opposition leader Riek Machar inked a deal in the northern Tanzanian city of Arusha as a roadmap toward stopping the deadly clashes in the strife-torn country.
This is while another ceasefire agreement signed in January 2014 had been violated frequently by both sides of the conflict.
Tanzanian Foreign Minister Bernard Membe, whose country brokered the peace talks between the South Sudanese warring factions, hailed the agreement, calling on both sides to stay united “for the good of South Sudan.”
Another round of peace negotiations is scheduled to kick off at the end of January in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Ababa in an attempt to reconcile conflicting groups in South Sudan.
South Sudan plunged into violence in December 2013, when fighting erupted between troops loyal to President Kiir and defectors led by his former deputy Machar around the capital, Juba.
The conflict soon turned into an all-out war between the army and the defectors, with the violence taking on an ethnic dimension that pitted the president’s Dinka tribe against Machar’s Nuer ethnic group.
According to UN statistics, fatal clashes in South Sudan have displaced around 1.9 million people, with thousands taking refuge in the camps of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).
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