South Sudan: IGAD Summit On South Sudan Postponed As SPLM-IO Lambastes Proposed Deal

29 January 2015

Addis Ababa — An extraordinary summit by the heads of state and government of the African regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which convened on Thursday, has been adjourned till Saturday in order to give the two warring parties two days to agree on a document imposed by the regional leaders.

This comes after the two principals, South Sudanese president Salva Kiir and leader of the opposition faction of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO), Riek Machar, could not agree on leadership structure and power-sharing arrangements in their face-to-face talks on Thursday.

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