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South Sudan’s government says former vice president Riek Machar  will return to his former position.

He is to be re-instated in his position as part of a peace deal aimed at ending a civil war that has lasted almost five years.

The presidential press unit announced the latest deal in a statement on Sunday.

Last week South Sudan’s government and rebels agreed to a security deal as part of efforts at resolving the ongoing civil war.

The deal was reached during talks in Sudan’s capital Khartoum, according to Sudanese state news agency SUNA.

Peace talks in Sudan

Last month President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar held two days of meeting in Sudan.

A deal was signed involving a ceasefire although some aspects of the deal were rejected by the rebels.

Fresh fighting however broke out between government troops in South Sudan and rebels shortly there after.

Government troops and rebels launched attacks on each other.

Talks in Ethiopia

Talks in Sudan had followed an earlier meeting in Ethiopia last month.

South Sudan government officials at that meeting said they had “had enough” of Riek Machar.

The government was then willing to let back a rebel representative but ruled out rebel leader Riek Machar.

Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth told journalists in Addis Ababa that “Machar cannot be part of government”.

Thousands of people have died in the 2013 civil war after troops loyal to the rebel Machar clashed with government troops.

South Sudan gained independence in 2011 from north Sudan but fighting broke out two years later.

South Sudan to extend President’s term

 

Source: Africafeeds.com

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