Kenya: UN Security Council Urges President to Intervene in "Sad, Hopeless, South Sudan"

Nairobi — The United Nations Security Council, on a visit to the Kenyan capital, has urged President Uhuru Kenyatta and other regional leaders to intervene in South Sudan, where they felt warring political leaders had no commitment to a peaceful resolution to their conflict.

In candid talks at the Presidency, unusual for UN diplomats, the Security Council ambassadors said they had found South Sudan President Salva Kiir Maryadit and his former vice president Dr Riak Machar unwilling to implement the peace agreement both have signed to, and unyielding overall.

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