South Sudan: BREAKING NEWS, media & analyses
August 19, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — The incumbent leader of South Sudan, Mr. Salva Kiir Mayardit, admits that he has every intention to sign the agreement within 15 days. According to Washington, Kiir assured Kerry, the US Secretary of State, that he will sign the peace agreement after consultations. “President Kiir assured the secretary that he has every intention of signing the […]
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August 18, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) – In a surprising turn of events that could send shockwaves down nerves of officials in the government of President Salva Kiir, The Government of Uganda has on Tuesday released a statement calling on all the warring parties in South Sudan to sign peace agreement immediately and put their country above their personal interest and personal egos. Speaking to media in Ugandan […]
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August 18, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) – The United States has welcomed the signing of the South Sudan peace agreement by parties on the 17th August and called on President Salva Kiir to immediately sign the agreement within 15 days he requested or face tough global sanctions. “We call on the government to sign the agreement within the 15-day period it requested for […]
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August 17, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — As the August 17th dateline come to pass, the leaders of South Sudan, with exception of Mr. Salva Kiir, have signed the revised IGAD-Plus Compromise Peace Agreement today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. While Dr. Riek Machar Teny signed the agreement on behave of SPLM/SPLA, Pagan Amum signed the document on behave of the former detainees, and […]
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August 15, 2015(Nyamilepedia) – IGAD peace process to bring peace to South Sudan was plunged into chaos and disarray after President Salva Kiir refused to show up for talks as scheduled by the IGAD-PLUS mediators, the president missed to turn up on Thursday and again on Friday for final negotiations with the rebel chief Riek Machar, despite the government’s knowledge of […]
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By Gatluak Ter Thach, PhD | Nashville, TN: August 14, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — South Sudan government and Uganda have quitted IGAD PLUS peace proposal scheduled to be signed on August 17, 2015. The two countries have created their own peace plan contrary to the IGAD PLUS proposal. Earlier this year, Uganda and South Sudan renewed their military collaborations that extended the […]
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August 14, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — As millions of South Sudanese are waiting eagerly for another dateline to end the deadly conflict in the war-torn South Sudan, four members of the mediating regional bloc led by the Ugandan president, Yoweveri Museveni, are believed to have hampered the recently proposed Compromised Peace Agreement that was to be signed on Monday. According to Dr. […]
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August 10, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — Members of Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which mediates South Sudan conflict in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, have held an intensive consultations today at the Ugandan State house, Entebbe. The meeting was attended by the Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Hailemariam Desalegn, Sudan’s new Foreign Minister, Ibrahim Ghandour, and the host president, Yoweri Museveni. According to […]
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August 10, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — The South Sudan’s Nuer Community in the United States of America condemn the decision of African Union to include Uganda in its committee that will study the report of AU Commission of Inquiry on atrocities committed in South Sudan conflict. To Nuer community, Uganda is a strong military and political ally of Salva Kiir government that […]
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August 10, 2015(Nyamilepedia) – South Sudan’s Cabinet Affairs Minister Martin Elia Lomuro has blasted the governments of Ethiopia and Sudan saying they are not democratically elected governments in order to talk about peace in South Sudan. Martin Elia the cabinet affairs minister of South Sudan Kiir’s regime was deported from Ethiopia after he tried to join negotiations without being officially invited by […]
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August 7, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — According to the latest press release of IGAD-Plus, members of IGAD PLUS express their collective commitment to the inclusivity of the South Sudan peace process, and calls on Salva Kiir government to allow the invited leaders to travel to peace talks venue in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “In this regard, we express our concern that invited representatives […]
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August 6, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — The long awaited South Sudan peace talks resumed today in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after it was adjourned on March 6th earlier this year. Despite intensive consultations among the mediators and five months of intense fighting between the warring parties, the atmosphere of negotiations hardly improve. While the SPLM/SPLA calls for peace, the Chief negotiator, Gen. Taban […]
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August 6, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — South Sudan’s internally displaced persons, under the protection of the United Nations in the national capital, Juba, matched to the streets at the protection sites in Juba from 8am, this morning. Hundreds of IDPs are peacefully demonstrating in POC3 under the theme “Yes for Peace, no for war” and urge the United Nations, IGAD, TROIKA and […]
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By James Maluit Ruach, Omaha, Nebraska, USA August 2, 2015 (Nyamilepedia) —- The nature of proposed compromise agreement on the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) plus resolution of the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan is a road map to bring peace to war torn nation of South Sudan, but the warring parties to the conflict should be negotiating […]
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July 29, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — Hope is an “expectation of positive outcome, with confidence and to cherish a desire with anticipation.” Thus is the mindset that my people have about President Obama’s visit to the continent of Africa, East Africa in particular. They say President Brack Hussien Obama’s visit to East Africa is a positive step and a hope to progress […]
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July 28, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — The president of the United States of America, Barack H. Obama, has assured the African leaders during his address of the Africa Union on Tuesday that the two warring leaders of South Sudan must reach an agreement by August 17th, 2015. According to Obama, this conclusion was reached on Monday during his meeting with the IGAD […]
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July 24, 2015 (Nyamilpeedia) — South Sudan’s Former Political Detainees, who were recently absorbed by the SPLM-Juba Faction, call on the IGAD-PLUS mediators to ensure that there shall be no further rounds to negotiate peace in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. “We should resolve that there shall be no further rounds to negotiate peace in Addis Ababa” Cde. Deng Alor resolves. Addressing […]
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Courtesy of IGAD: Addis Ababa, July 24, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — Today on the 24th July 2015, the IGAD Special Envoys handed over the Proposed Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan, which is the outcome of the extensive negotiations South Sudanese Parties and Stakeholders have been undertaking since the IGAD mediated negotiations that began […]
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Addis Ababa, 23 July 2015(Nyamilepedia) — The IGAD Special Envoys announce to all South Sudanese stakeholders the release of the proposed Compromise Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan. The proposed Compromise Agreement has been developed through the extensive negotiations by the South Sudanese stakeholders since the IGAD mediated negotiations began in January 2014. […]
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Since war broke out in South Sudan in 2013, IGAD made several unsuccessful attempts to restore peace, this time around IGAD-Plus seem to hummer the odds, is peace really possible in South Sudan in August 2015? By Lul Gatkuoth Gatluak, July 20, 2015(Nyamilepedia) — While writing this article, preparations are underway to reconvene peace talks between South Sudan warring parties. […]
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