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Last week President Salva Kiir requested more time to hold consultations before signing the deal. They promise to open humanitarian corridors and allow “30 days of tranquility” so farmers can sow crops and prevent starvation.

Juba: South Sudan’s president signed a peace deal on Wednesday to end a 20-month conflict with rebels, but he told regional African leaders at the ceremony that he had “serious reservations”.

As South Sudan’s president was due to sign a peace pact on Wednesday, his transport minister was in South Africa to sign a deal he hopes will be part of a new inflow of infrastructure investment needed to develop the world’s youngest country. “Now you can see...

United States government said President Kiir should join the rebel leader, Machar, by signing the peace agreement to end the 20-month long civil war in the country. The conflict pits Kiir’s ethnic Dinka people against Machar’s Nuer.

President Salva Kiir is scheduled to sign the power-sharing agreement in Juba on Wednesday, alongside the leaders of Kenya, Uganda, Sudan and Ethiopia, but his spokesman said he had reservations.

Rebel spokesman Stephen Par Kuol told VOA this earlier this week that Kiir refused to sign Monday’s peace deal because he is afraid of power sharing.

The compromise agreement put forth by IGAD last month, a copy of which was obtained from the rebel faction, laid out a political settlement that sought to appoint Riek Machar to the position offirst vice president as part of a reconstituted transitional government.

Differences about the structure of the army, demilitarization and the system of governance in the oil- rich Upper Nile state are blocking a deal, Arik said.

Just two weeks ago, the UN Security Council marked the fourth anniversary of South Sudans independence by expressing profound disappointment in South Sudans leaders for putting their personal ambitions ahead of the good of their country and their people, sparking months of...

In a statement on Wednesday on the eve of the independence anniversary, the United Nations chief urged President Salva Kiir and ex- vice president Riek Machar “to prove their leadership” by finding a political solution and immediately concluding a peace agreement....