IGAD leaders to deploy regional force in S Sudan, back Machar’s
reinstatement : Ghandour
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August 6, 2016 (KHARTOUM) - Leader of the East African block have
decided to send a regional force to the South Sudan to protect
civilians and to back the reinstatement of Riek Machar as First Vice
President to ensure the implementation of a peace agreement they
brokered in August last year.
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First Vice-President Riek Machar (L) and President Salva Kiir (R)
listen to the national anthem following a ceremony during which Machar
was sworn in on April 26, 2016. (Phot AFP/Samir Bol)
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) heads of state
and government and the African Union Ad-hoc Committee on South Sudan,
referred to as the IGAD Plus met to discuss the situation in South
Sudan in Addis Ababa on Friday.
The meeting was attended by all the IGAD leaders, except President
Salva Kiir who dispatched the newly appointed First Vice President
Taban Deng Gai. JMEC and UNMISS chiefs were part of the meeting which
was chaired by the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn.
“The IGAD leader unanimously decided to work to stop the fighting in
South Sudan and secure Juba through a regional force to be agreed by
the chiefs of staff of the armies of the east African block ,” said
the Sudanese Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour after the return of
President Omer al Bashir from Addis Abba on Friday evening.
Ghandour further said the meeting has “called for a dialogue between
Kiie and Machar, agreed to work for Machar’s reinstatement as First
Vice President, and to implement the security arrangements as provided
in chapter II of the peace agreement in order to stop definitively the
fighting and move forward towards the full implementation of the
agreement”.
The Sudanese top diplomat who accompanied al-Bashir to the meeting
pointed that these decisions have been adopted unanimously with the
participation of Taban Deng, “who expressed his willingness to work
with IGAD and its partners in order to implement these decisions”.
The Arabic service of the Turkish news agency Anadolu reported similar
statements attributed to the IGAD Executive Secretary Mahboub Maalim.
A detailed statement on the outcome of the meeting would be released
on Saturday.
After the meeting, South Sudanese information minister Michael Makuei
Lueth, expressed his government support to the decisions of the IGAD
summit, saying the regional force is “a protection and not
intervention force”.
The South Sudanese government “will take part in the arrangements for
those troops to be deployed in specific areas of southern Sudan" Lueth
further said in a statement to Anadolu.
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6 August 10:21, by jur_likang_a_ likan’g
M Lueth still wants power in their hands so that they can continue
with rape citizens, plunder their property and mass murder people. No
this is not going to be a few years time. They must answer as to why
all this madness came to the people of South Sudan!! Never had we
thought our own military planes could rain terror on our mothers,
children and fathers.
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6 August 12:34, by DENG GAI GATLUAK
The IGAD resolutions are invariably brimful of conspiracies and
destructive ill motives that manifest in pretext of fake agreements.
They (IGAD) are never after a sincere peace in South Sudan, owing to
the fact that, their actions are merely driven by hidden political
agenda. We still have a mountainous ladder to climb if at all we’re
still highly dependence on IGAD resolutions.
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6 August 15:33, by lino
Hahaha! The President once said: The Government of South Sudan
will not allow even 1 soldier extra in the country!!! Protection or
not!!!
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6 August 15:45, by Kerem
It is only visionless and mediocre south Sudanese who will just
accept and celebrate this victory without knowing the inside of the
IGAD stories. Wait and see what will soon happen
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6 August 16:40, by Deng II
Let wait if the changes of mind is true in president Kiir. But
I can not surprised, in fact, I don’t think the president can hold on
to what he said and believe in himself, he flip-flops numerous
times,he is confuses. This is why the world support serial killer
because they learned that the President is just holding empty head.
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6 August 16:56, by Deng II
I got to tell you folks, Kiir will sell away some
subtribes of Dinka very soon to appease Taban Deng. My hopes and
trusts on JCE. Taban just show his number one part of color by giving
all ministers to Nuer in Great Upper Nile leaving Dinka,Murle, Anyuak,
Maban and Etc, with non.
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6 August 17:18, by Deng II
Ruweng State, Eastern State ought to be super careful
at this time, an exception of Jonglei State where Kuol Manyang exist.
It’s become to my conscience base on what I inference the way Taban
selected all Nuer Ministers in IO, and give non to nonNuer in Great
Upper Nile give us a hint that Nuer are fighting desperately for all
the Government position in SS.
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6 August 17:28, by Deng II
We Dinka need all States dominated by Dinkans to be
leave a lone without deploying foreign forces in it.
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