African religious leader meeting in Nairobi have urged regional government to ensure the South Sudanese implement the peace deal signed a year ago.

Riek Machar has gone home for the first time since last October and reached an agreement with President Salva Kiir on ending  the bitter civil war that has killed tens of thousands and displaced a third of the population in Africa’s newest country. 

As the two leaders were shaking hands in Juba, religious groups urged neighboring government to maintain pressure on the South Sudan parties to make good on the latest of their undertakings.

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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley tells the Security Council that the people of South Sudan are suffering and the promise of their hard-fought independence is slipping away.

US Ambassador Nikki Haley says opposing parties in the world’s newest nation must commit themselves to the revitalization process put forward by the eight-nation East African regional group known as IGAD to resuscitate the peace agreement – and to do so quickly because time is running short.

Hopes for post-independence peace and stability in South Sudan six years ago were dashed when the country plunged into ethnic violence.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people.

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