SOUTH SUDAN
No Deal
Riek Machar and other rebel leaders refused to sign a peace deal to end South Sudan’s brutal civil war, which has been raging since December 2013.
Machar and President Salva Kiir signed a ceasefire and power-sharing agreement last month that many hoped would pave the way for a lasting peace. But on Tuesday Machar refused to sign a final deal.
“The main South Sudanese opposition groups, including the SPLM-IO (Machar faction), refused to sign the final document demanding that their reservations be guaranteed in it,” Sudan‘s Foreign Minister Al-Dierdiry Ahmed said, according to Al Jazeera.
One of the main sticking points was a dispute over the number of states. Machar wants to reverse the government’s 2015 decision to divide the country into 32 states, rather than the previous 10, in what Al Jazeera suggested is an attempt to retain more power for himself.
Since it began just two years after South Sudan gained its independence from Sudan, the conflict has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
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