Juba, South Sudan
August 20, 2021— In a meeting at J1, President Salva Kiir Mayardit urged the Sudanese Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok to persuade the leadership of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In-Opposition(SPLM-IO) to resolve their party differences.
This comes after the Prime Minister of Sudan, Hon. Abdallah Hamdok, who doubles as the Chairperson of IGAD, one of the guarantors in the Revitalized Peace Agreement signed in 2018, went to South Sudanese capital, Juba yesterday on August 19, 2021.
In a statement by Presidential press unit, during his welcoming speech, President Kiir asked Prime Minister Hamdok as a peace mediator of South Sudan to convince the holdout groups to observe the ceasefire and advise the SPLM/A-IO also to clean its house for the sake of stability in the country, adding that the nation cannot withstand another bloodshed.
” His Excellency President Salva Kiir Mayardit urged Dr Abdallah Hamdok as a peace guarantor to urge the holdout groups to respect cessation of hostilities as a matter of urgency. President Salva Kiir Mayardit also urged Dr Abdalllah Hamdok to ask the SPLM_IO to resolve their differences peacefully, stressing that South Sudan cannot afford another confrontation”,the statement reads by part.
“President Salva Kiir Mayardit also reiterated the commitment of South Sudan Government to work together with Sudan’s Government to strengthen the ties and bilateral cooperation of the two Countries in line with the 2012 Cooperation Agreement on the areas of security arrangements along the borders, cooperation in Central Bank and the related issues, Agreement on economic matters and oil, trade as well as payment of post service benefits”,it added.
The differences of the SPLM/A-IO under the leadership of South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny intensified after his Chief of Staff, 1st. Lt. Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual declared it publicly that he won’t buy orders again from his Boss Dr. Riek Machar Teny and unilaterally declared himself as the leader of the movement, replacing Machar but the decision was badly slammed by Machar’s loyalists.
