{"id":14078,"date":"2020-02-20T17:25:40","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=14078"},"modified":"2020-02-20T17:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-02-20T14:25:44","slug":"sudans-kiir-machar-agree-to-form-unity-government-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/02\/20\/sudans-kiir-machar-agree-to-form-unity-government-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudan&#8217;s Kiir &#038; Machar Agree to Form Unity Government This Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong> By AFP<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed Thursday to form a unity government on Saturday, a long-delayed step towards ending six years of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;We have agreed to form the government in two days on 22nd February. We are still discussing on other things and I am hopeful we will resolve them all,&#8221; Machar said after a meeting between the two men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kiir confirmed that they had agreed to join together for the third time in government &#8212; an experiment which has twice previously ended in disaster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a dispute between the two men which pushed the young nation into war in December 2013, only two years after a hard-fought independence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As the president, I will be appointing the vice presidents, and I will start by appointing Riek tomorrow (Friday) in the morning and I will dissolve the government today and then form a new government on the 22nd&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;These are changes which will bring peace.&#8221;<br>The formation of a unity government was a linchpin of a September 2018 peace deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it has been delayed twice by failure to move forward on crucial issues such as forming a unified army, carving out state borders and creating a protection force to assure Machar&#8217;s security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kiir said his forces would be in charge of security in Juba as well as Machar&#8217;s protection.<br>&#8220;I have taken responsibility of protection, as the unified forces are still under training,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He urged some 190,000 people living under United Nations protection in tent cities in the capital and across the nation &#8212; many of whom have lived there for several years, &#8220;to come out, because the dawn of peace has come.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By AFP South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar agreed Thursday to form a unity government on Saturday, a long-delayed step towards ending six years of war. &#8220;We have agreed to form the government in two days on 22nd February. We are still discussing on other things and I am hopeful we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8864,"featured_media":14079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-14078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8864"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14080,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14078\/revisions\/14080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}