Nipate
Forum => Kenya Discussion => Topic started by: Omollo on February 02, 2015, 07:21:04 PM
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They are soon running out of ink. They have signed peace deals in Ethiopia, Tanzania etc. They just signed anew one a week after signing one in Tanzania. Methinks each side is looking for an advantage to dislodge the other. I can't see Machar going to Juba to take up his old job while Ugandan troops are in the country.
The two warring factions to the South Sudan conflict this morning signed a peace agreement witnessed by President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The new peace deal immediately ends any further bloodshed and all forms of hostility between the infighting groups. Under the new peace pact , the warring factions agreed to adjourn further talks until February 19 when the negotiations resume ahead of the final and comprehensive peace pact on March 5.
Any side which violates the new peace deal will face unspecified penalties from both the African Union and the United Nations Security Council, warned Chief Mediator, Ambassador Seuym Mesfen from Ethiopia.
President Kenyatta, Ethiopian Prime minister Hailemariam Dessalegn and Ambassador Mesfen asked the principals to the conflict to show statesmanship and honour what they had signed.
The four day negotiations leading to the peace agreement signed at 00.21 am this morning were characterized by tension, intense consultations, disagreements, two postponements and political horse trading. The peace pact was first scheduled to be signed on Thursday, January 29, before the process was postponed to Saturday and then Sunday. The negotiations leading to this morning’s signing ceremony in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia were held under the auspices of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad ) whose rapporteur is President Kenyatta while Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Dessalegn who also witnessed the peace pact holds the chairmanship of the region body.
Igad groups eight countries that include Kenya, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia,, Uganda, Djibouti and the two twin states of Sudan and South Sudan. The crisis in South Sudan started slightly over a year on December 15, 2013 when former Vice President Dr Riek Machar left the government in a huff when President Salva Kiir accused him of plotting a coup to seize power.
When Dr. Machar left government, he immediately became the leader of the South Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA-in opposition) while President Kiir was left holding to the ruling party, the South Sudanese Liberation Movement-Government of South Sudan Republic (SPLM-GSSR).
Read more at: http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/article/2000150184/president-kenyatta-witnesses-warring-factions-in-south-sudan-sign-peace-pact