South Sudan rebels accuse IGAD of bias as war continues File photo: Former first vice president Riek Machar File photo: Former first vice president Riek Machar
South Sudan’s armed opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In-Opposition (SPLM-IO) led by the former vice-president Riek Machar has criticised the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) for what they said was its bias towards President Kiir in the revitalization of the 2015 peace accord. Machar is being held in South Africa to prevent him from going back to his country. The decision was reportedly reached by IGAD countries in order to keep him away in the hope of preventing fighting in the world’s youngest nation. Manawa Peter Gatkuoth, a senior opposition official loyal to Riek Machar, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday said IGAD’s plan to revitalize the peace process was biasedly in favour of President Kiir and his first deputy Taban Deng Gai. Manawa called on the members of the Troika (the UK, US and Norway) and the African Union (AU) to initiate a new forum for peace in South Sudan. In July this year, Ministers of the East African bloc IGAD said that Machar will not be invited to the next meeting for the revitalization process. “We already agreed that the process, all opposition groups including Riek Machar’s ideas, the representatives of Riek Machar, can be involved in this process. For the time being, physically we are not inviting Riek Machar,” Ethiopian Foreign Minister Workneh Gebeyehu said at the end of the ministers' meeting in Juba. -- To post to this group, send email to southsudankob@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to southsudankob+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to SouthSudanKob@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14oqcjjaJ1f2zKaF95p-QHBY0Bkb54vCOpcuLkPZ29QLKfA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
