The East Africa regional body, Intergovernmental Authority on Development , has given the two parties in the South Sudan conflict 15-day ultimatum to end the violence or face sanctions.
Forces from the South Sudan Government and rebel group of the SPLMA in opposition, led by former Vice President Reik Machar, had in December 2013, engaged in violence, following an alleged move to overthrow the Salva Kiir-led government.
The UN refugee agency said hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the fighting with about two million persons displaced, while some 570, 000 others fled to neighboring Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya and Sudan.
The two parties had failed to honour the Dec. 23 cessation of hostilities agreement, as fighting to control the oil state continued by the two forces.
Efforts of the IGAD-led mediated negotiations to end the violence failed as the two parties traded blames for their inability to restore peace in the newest country.
However, the East African leaders, at the end of the 28th Extra- Ordinary Summit of the IGAD Assembly of Heads of States and Governments on Nov. 6 and 7 in Addis Ababa, resolved that the crises must end or the parties would face sanction.
The IGAD Chairperson and Ethiopian Prime Minister, Hailemariam Dessalegn, made the announcement on Saturday, in a communiqué after the two-day summit.
Source: Punchng
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