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South Sudan’s Splintered Opposition: Preventing More Conflict
Side deals between President Salva Kiir and renegade opposition leaders jeopardise the 2018 agreement that ended the worst fighting of South Sudan’s civil war.
East African mediators should press the principal combatants – Kiir and Riek Machar – to restart talks on the issues that divide them.
- ICG
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President Salva Kiir reached deals in January with major opposition commanders who broke away from his main rival Vice President Riek Machar.
The accords are a mixed bag, opening space for resolving bitter wrangling over the northern city of Malakal but increasing odds of wider infighting among opposition ex-comrades…