Machar meets British envoy to South Sudan over allocation of state governors – spokesman

JUBA – South Sudan first vice-president Riek Machar Teny has met this afternoon with deputy envoy of the United Kingdom to Juba, Charles Moore, and the two men discussed the allocation of state governors, his office said in a statement today.

James Gatdet Dak, the Press Secretary in the Office of the First Vice President said Machar and the British diplomat discussed the implementation of the revitalized peace agreement and the ongoing talks to form state governments.

“The First Vice President of the Republic of South Sudan, H.E. Dr. Riek Machar Teny, and the United Kingdom’s Deputy Ambassador to South Sudan, H. E. Charles Moore, today met and discussed and touched on a range of issues facing the new Republic,” Dak said in the statement seen by Sudan Post.

“They include implementation of the Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS, formation of states governments in the country and the response on Covid-19 disease in South Sudan,” he added.

The statement further said the UK diplomat “expressed the British government’s further support to the Revitalized Transitional Government of National Unity (R-TGoNU) in exploring ways and means to tackle the issues facing the nation.”