South Sudan leaders set tight deadline for crucial peace negotiations
Fresh push to restart South-Sudans peace discussions comes after months-long pause. Two presidents joined forces to set a strict timeline for solving remaining disagreements between parties
The long-paused South-Sudan peace discussions are getting a re-start after President Salva Kiir and President William Ruto of Kenya met this wednesday. The high-level duo set a tight two-week time-frame to work through un-resolved points
The peace-process hit a road-block last summer when Riek Machars political group stepped back from talks (they were not happy with mediators ideas to change the six-year old peace deal). The original agreement helped stop fighting between different groups in the country
The previous round of discussions which took place in the near-by nation of Kenya‚ brought some hope for lasting peace. That historic peace-deal from 2018 ended a brutal civil-war that went on for 5 years — a conflict that took away more than 400k lives
