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[image: JPEG - 30.4 kb]*U.S. President Barack Obama holds a meeting on South Sudan with IGAD leaders at his hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia July 27, 2015. Pictured at the table are: Obama (clockwise from the top center), U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, African Union Chairperson Dlamini Zuma, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, Sudan’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Ibrahim Ghandour, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta and U.S. National Security Advisor Susan Rice. (Photo Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)* On Monday 27 July, leaders and officials of the East African regional bloc, IGAD, and the chairperson of the African Union Commission Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma briefed Obama on the progress that have been made to end the South Sudanese conflict and discussed with him ways to partner with American administration to boost their efforts in this respect. The South Sudanese president Salva Kiir didn’t take part in the meeting. The country’s foreign minister, Barnaba Marial Benjamin, lashed out to AU and IGAD and threatened that Kiir will officially launch a serious complaint to both the AU and IGAD for “breaching protocol by refusing to inform or invite the “constitutionally elected” head of state. “That is very disappointing on the part of IGAD chairperson as well as the African Union because this republic should have been invited. If you talk about the issue of South Sudan that you want to bring to peace and you don’t invite that country then that is even a difficult process to proceed sort of normally,” said South Sudan’s foreign minister Benjamin. “We would definitely put our protest very clearly to the chairperson of IGAD for having failed to advise His Excellency President Obama that if there is a regional meeting, you must also invite the Republic of South Sudan,” he told the VOA on Tuesday. No explanation was provided by the AU or IGAD to explain why president Salva Kiir was not invited to take part in this meeting, but observers justified his exclusion saying he is part of conflict and the participants needed to speak frankly about the responsibility of the warring parties. But Juba’s foreign minister seriously complained, saying it was unfair for the international community to equate the “elected leadership” to the rebel movement. “It is not fair on the part of the international community to continue with this moral equivalence between an elected leadership and a rebel movement. It actually makes it a very disappointing diplomatic sort of gesture to the people of South Sudan who fought so hard to get their own country,” he said. “Yes, we have a crisis, but please respect us as an elected government. To do such an act, I mean no country will take such a treatment in their face,” he added. *OBAMA CALLS TO END WAR* In his speech to the people of African on Tuesday at the headquarters of the African Union on Tuesday, Obama called to end wars in Africa. He mentioned the armed conflicts in Central African Republic, Mali, Sudan and South Sudan. He further stressed on the urgent need to stop the inter-South Sudanese conflict and to hold account the perpetrators of atrocities in the youngest African nation. "In South Sudan, the joy of independence has descended into the despair of violence," he said adding "And neither Mr. Kiir, nor Mr. Machar have shown, so far, any interest in sparing their people from this suffering, or reaching a political solution". He further disclosed that he agreed with the IGAD and AU leaders that the warring parties must sign a peace agreement by 17 August and warned saying "because if they do not, I believe the international community must raise the costs of intransigence". "And the world awaits the report of the AU Commission of Inquiry, because accountability for atrocities must be part of any lasting peace in Africa’s youngest nation," he concluded. (ST) omments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. 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If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article55861#forum> - 29 July 10:11, by dinkdong That’s what happen when you lost legitimacy! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336842> - 29 July 13:25, by Ayuen deng International community must know that people of South Sudan will not appreciate the leaveless peace that they are proposing with rebels. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336851> - 29 July 10:20, by Akook What the regime in Juba should know (..and it seems they don’t know)is that they are too weak to afford making themselves criminals in the region. They can’t get away with wanton killings they had done on innocent civilians. To make matters worst, they are running their mouths far too much against international community repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336843> - 29 July 10:25, by Akook They think America is UN! USA is about to open up an avalanche of international justice and that alone will be enough to scatter Salva Kiir’s cronies in Juba. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336846> - 29 July 10:21, by Nguntap Could it be a question of Illegitimacy of President Kiir or hidden agenda to saction fails gov’t of Kiir or could it be discussion of withdrawing of all foreign troops fighting in Kiir’s name if Kiir fails to accept peace? Don’t cry, your time has come to an end idoit!!! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336844> - 29 July 10:24, by Nguntap Could it be a question of Illegitimacy of President Kiir or hidden agenda to saction fails gov’t of Kiir or could it be discussion of withdrawing of all foreign troops fighting in Kiir’s name if Kiir fails to accept peace? Don’t cry, your time has come to an end idoit!!! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336845> - 29 July 13:04, by Eastern Of course Kiir is no longer a legitimate leader of South Sudan; Kiirs tenure of office has expired. Americans are only concerned about the common South Sudanese masses not the blook thirsty ’leaders’. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336849> - 29 July 13:01, by Akuma So it mean that AU, IGAD & International communities when to impose fake peace to South Sudanese if they don’t involved an elected gov’t. I don’t think it will be a genuine peace that will let South Sudanese people live together. IGAD, AU & International will be shame when that fake peace is not sign in their face. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336848> - 29 July 13:05, by Eastern Akuma, There are no any elected leaders in South Sudan as of now; please read that shoddy constitution once again. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336850> - 29 July 14:38, by jubaone Dear All, In April 2010, Kiir was elected President of the then Govt. of Southern Sudan till referendum and subsequent elections in line with the ICSS 2005. At Independence dawn 8.July 2011, he should have resigned and organized fresh elctions in line with TCSS 2011 and be elected president of the Rep. of South Sudan for 5 years. He did NOT. This is where his legimitacy would have started. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336853> - 29 July 14:45, by jubaone Dr. Barnabe foolishly mixes the ICSS 2005 and TCSS 2011. In effect Kiir has been an illegimitate president since 2011. How then did GoSS hold all Southerners as fools? Kiir got 93.3% in 2010 which should have again been confirmed through popular vote prior to Independence in 2011. SPLM dodged that and simply overwrote the ICSS to suit the TCSS. That´s when things went wrong. So Baranaba, keep cool repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336854> - 29 July 14:53, by jubaone SPLM-diehards claim Kiir´s legitimacy as from 2010 which now has no legal and consitutional basis. This would be a 10 year tenure stemming from this single elections. He has inadvertently served now 2 Terms (10 years) and illegally added another 3 more years to 2018. Hopefully, the IGAD-Plus peace deal cuts that down till he gets that mandate from the people. There also smart Junubin out there!!! repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=55861&id_forum=336855> - 29 July 18:14, by Young Patriot Dr Marial Benjamin, no more songs of democratically elected government. Even Pres Obama now refers to Kiir as Mr Kiir because he knows that this brutal dictator has expired like a bad medicine. 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