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...“The SPLM didn’t develop its people in terms of running a government,” says John Akec, vice-chancellor of the University of Juba....
...Analysts welcomed the breakthrough, which followed the first meeting in almost two years between President Salva Kiir and his main rival, former vice-president Riek Machar....
...The US has banned the export of weapons to all sides in South Sudan’s civil war as it seeks to ramp up the pressure on President Salva Kiir and regional governments to end the conflict....
...The strong statement from South Sudan’s neighbours suggested that they are losing patience with Salva Kiir, the country’s president, as the effects of the civil war spill over into the region....
...The civil war broke out two years later after President Salva Kiir, and his main rival and then deputy, Riek Machar, failed to resolve deep-rooted ethnic and political differences....
...Senior officials lashed out at Mr Machar four days after he threatened to resume fighting amid accusations that President Salva Kiir had sabotaged the agreement that ended the conflict, which lasted from...
...But Ateny Wek Ateny, spokesman for President Salva Kiir, was quoted by Kenyan media as saying the country was merely exercising its rights over a “routine” matter....
...South Sudan won its independence from Sudan in 2011 but a civil war broke out in 2013 between forces loyal to the president, Salva Kiir, and supporters of his then deputy, Riek Machar....
...Mr Machar has not been seen in public since early July, when hundreds of people were killed in Sudan’s capital Juba in five days of fighting between troops loyal to him and those supporting rival Salva Kiir...
...John Kerry, US secretary of state, made the warning after five days of fighting last month between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and those backing his then deputy Riek Machar, killed hundreds of people...
...Riek Machar, the first vice-president in the unity government, tweeted that his forces had come under “heavy bombardments by Pres[ident Salva] Kiir helicopters”, adding this shows that his “partner is not...
...East African foreign ministers have also called for foreign military intervention after deep-seated mistrust between forces loyal to Salva Kiir, South Sudan’s president, and Riek Machar, its first vice-president...
...Salva Kiir, the former head of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement, who has been president since independence in 2011, and Riek Machar, the vice-president....
...The two leaders are unlikely to “step aside any time soon” in the interests of peace, according to John Prendergast of the US-based Enough Project, which works to stop crimes against humanity....
...However, the international community must continue to play its pivotal role in bringing President Salva Kiir and former vice-president Riek Machar to the negotiating table....
...John Prendergast, director of the US-based Enough Project, which campaigns against mass atrocities, said many obstacles to lasting peace remained....
...The preparations were repeated on Tuesday but again the man who led the oil-rich country to independence in 2011 with President Salva Kiir, now his bitter rival, was a no show....
...In a joint statement on Thursday, 10 organisations appealed for more international action to end the violence pitting forces loyal to Salva Kiir, the president, against those backing Riek Machar, his former...
...Under the deal President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar agreed to form a transitional government of national unity and demilitarise the capital, Juba, as some of the first steps to building...
...There was no word of casualties or what triggered the clashes between soldiers supporting President Salva Kiir and those loyal to his first vice-president, Riek Machar....
...Kiir, reports John Aglionby in Nairobi....
...More than one million people in the world’s newest country have fled the fighting, which began after a political fallout between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy, Riek Machar, in mid-December....
...The UN says 3.8m are already in need of food aid and 1.3m people have been internally displaced since a high-level political fallout between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar sparked...
...Representatives of South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his rival, the sacked vice-president Riek Machar, signed a ceasefire agreement on Thursday intending to end vicious fighting that killed thousands...
...It estimates that 400,000 civilians have fled their homes since the outbreak of fighting pitted the forces of the president, Salva Kiir, against those loyal to Riek Machar, his former deputy who was accused...
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