SOUTH SUDAN
Things Fall Apart
Talks to end South Sudan’s civil war broke up without yielding a peace deal on Wednesday in Ethiopia, threatening to prolong a conflict that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
The eight-country Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) trade bloc has been attempting to revive a 2015 peace deal between factions led by President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar, but it said in a statement that “several attempts to narrow the gaps between the positions of the parties” had failed, Reuters reported.
IGAD’s statement didn’t provide further details on the sticking points.
If a peace deal can’t be forged, the country could face a continuation of ethnically motivated violence, man-made famine and tit-for-tat human rights violations or perhaps a degeneration into “a state of permanent anarchy in which life is nastier, shorter, and even more brutish” than it is today, opined Luka Kuol, with the Africa Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University in Washington, DC.
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