President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has confirmed to the public that his government has accepted a hundred days extension of pre-transitional period to resolve the outstanding issues on security arrangements and number of States and boundaries.<\/p>\n
He has however said that the 100-day extension might be reduced or increased depending on how quickly they are able to respond to the proposed and outstanding critical security issues.<\/p>\n
“In my address to the Catholic Church in Rejaf Parish during its centenary celebrations on 1st<\/sup> November 2019, I promised that I will never return South Sudan back to war”, said President Kiir.<\/p>\n The President further explained that it is not possible for the Government of South Sudan to pay the $100 million for the security arrangements which became the point of the anti-government forces, the Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO).<\/p>\n He says that the public might not be assured of a 100-day extension.<\/p>\n The SPLM\/A-IO leaders\u2019 external security protection is agreed by the Government and other leaders that are not confident, President Kiir discloses.<\/p>\n “I want to assure you, we will raise the other part of the 100 million that the Government has pledged”, he affirms.<\/p>\n The President was addressing the public at Juba airport after arrival from the Uganda meeting with the SPLM\/A-IO leader Dr Riek Machar.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, European Union decision making group on South Sudan also referred to as the Troika has on Friday welcomed the fact that President Kiir and Dr Machar have had a face-to-face meeting on the outstanding issues.<\/p>\n \u201cWe recognize the region\u2019s leadership, and welcome IGAD\u2019s initiative to bring all the parties back together in Addis,\u201d they stressed.<\/p>\n During the meeting, the leaders have agreed to provide the clarity necessary so as to allow people across the country to retain confidence in the process, says the Troika.<\/p>\n They have called upon IGAD to regularize the status of Dr Machar in order to facilitate the progress.<\/p>\n \u223dEnd<\/em>\u223d<\/p>\n Source: Catholic Radio Network<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Salva Kiir of South Sudan has confirmed to the public that his government has…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-amecea-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9387,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9385\/revisions\/9387"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communications.amecea.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}