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| Warring Parties Sign Cease-Fire In South Sudan |
| 2018-06-29 |
| [NPR.ORG] The president of South Sudan and his former vice president, who now leads the country's largest rebel group, announced a permanent cease-fire Wednesday following talks in Sudan's capital. In the latest of many unsuccessful attempts to stem more than four years of bloodshed in South Sudan's civil war, President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar's signed agreement is set to take effect on Saturday. The two leaders met in person for the first time in two years beginning last week during talks in Æthiopia. The civil war, which broke out in late 2013, helped bring about one of the world's worst ongoing humanitarian crises. Tens of thousands of people have been killed while at least 4.2 million people, one in three South Sudanese, have been forced from their homes since the war started, according to the United Nations ...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks... secretary-general of South Sudan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Anybody keeps count? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-06-29 03:25 |