
Monday, August 31, 2015
Just day a day or so after South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, signed a brokered peace deal with the rebels both the army and the rebels have accused each other of attacks.
Rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar said that government troops attacked towns held by the rebels. The army denies the accusation and said it was the rebels who attack them.
In a state televised speech on August 26, Kiir decreed that a permanent ceasefire that would go into effect at midnight on August 29.