Wu Haitao Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/wu-haitao/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 19 Apr 2016 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 Wu Haitao Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/wu-haitao/ 32 32 UN Security Council seriously concerned about rebel leader delaying return to South Sudan https://jjcornish.com/2016/04/un-security-council-seriously-concerned-rebel-leader-delaying-return-south-sudan/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2016/04/un-security-council-seriously-concerned-rebel-leader-delaying-return-south-sudan/ The United Nations Security Council is seriously  concerned about the failure of South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to Juba to take up his old post as deputy to President Salva Kiir as part of a peace deal. A rebel spokesman says logistical reasons have delayed his travel. ends into UN peacekeeping chief […]

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]]> The United Nations Security Council is seriously  concerned about the failure of South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return to Juba to take up his old post as deputy to President Salva Kiir as part of a peace deal.

A rebel spokesman says logistical reasons have delayed his travel.

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UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous briefed the 15-member council on South Sudan at the request of the United States.

President Salva Kiir’s decision to sack Machar as his deputy in 2013 precipitated a three-year civil war with thousands killed and millions displaced.

Fighting’s taken an ethnic character pitting Kiir’s dominant Dinka ethnic group against Machar’s Nuer.

China’s ambassador to the UN Wu Haitao says members of the Security Council are ready to address any obstruction of implementation of the last years peace deal between Kiir and Machar.

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