iy Ahmed Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/iy-ahmed/ The low down on African affairs Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 iy Ahmed Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/iy-ahmed/ 32 32 South Sudan foes engage in a group hug https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/south-sudan-foes-engage-in-a-group-hug/ Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/06/south-sudan-foes-engage-in-a-group-hug/ South Sudan President and his arch foe Riek Machar have enabled in a group hug with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who’s mediating peace talks between them. They met face to face in Addis Ababa for a working visit last night ahead of talks today. Enabling the  first face-to-face encounter in two years for President […]

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]]> South Sudan President and his arch foe Riek Machar have enabled in a group hug with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who’s mediating peace talks between them.

They met face to face in Addis Ababa for a working visit last night ahead of talks today.

Enabling the  first face-to-face encounter in two years for President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar involved sending the South Sudanese rebel leader from South Africa where he has been sheltering since being driven out of Juba.

Delegates from both sees warn that the group hug and smiles notwithstanding, a peace deal is a long way off.

The regional grouping IGAD is proposing a power sharing agreement that would leave Kiir in the top job and reinstate Machar as his deputy.

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