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Friday, January 3, 2014
As delegates gather in Ethiopia to negotiate peace between the government of South Sudan and rebel forces who have been battling it out for the past three weeks, the South Sudanese army (SPLA) is advancing on two rebel-controlled towns. While both sides agreed in principle to a ceasefire, neither has indicated when the fighting will stop.
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir declared a state of emergency late the evening of January 1 in the states of Unity and Jonglei. Both states capitals, Bentiu and Bor, are in the hands of rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar.
International pressure for a peace deal is mounting and some neighboring nations, specifically Uganda, have issued veiled threats to Machar to end the conflict.
“We are advancing to Bor because these people want to come to Juba,” SPLA Chief of Staff James Hoth Mai told reporters in the capital. “We don’t yet have a ceasefire and we don’t want them to come and get us.” Mai said SPLA troops were also approaching Bentiu after seizing the nearby town of Mayom on January 1.
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