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Tuesday, August 7, 2018
A peace deal was reached between the president of South Sudan and head of the country’s main rebel group. The two signed a final cease fire and power-sharing agreement on August 5.
“I call on everyone as a leader of South Sudan that this agreement which we have signed today should be the end of the war and the conflict in our country,” said President Salva Kiir.
Riek Machar, former VP and rebel leader of the country said after the signing, “today we celebrate, not just in South Sudan, but throughout the world.”
The conflict has killed tens of thousands, displaced an estimated quarter of South Sudan’s population of 12 million and ruined its economy that heavily relies on crude oil production.
“An agreement on outstanding issues has been signed and this agreement expresses the commitment of all parties to a ceasefire,” the foreign minister of neighboring Sudan, Al-Dirdiri Mohamed said on Sudan state television. Sudan helped broker the agreement.
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