This Week in South Sudan - Week 25

Tuesday 19 June

• The EU donates 68 million euro in humanitarian assistance for vulnerable communities in Sudan and South Sudan.

Wednesday 20 June

• A delegation from the Government of South Sudan (GoSS) will arrive in Khartoum at the end of June to discuss and initiate the oil production and cooperation between the two Sudans.
• The South Sudan Opposition Alliance (SSOA) rejected the IGAD revised bridging proposal, arguing that it did not consider fundamental issues.
• BBC: “Inside South Sudan’s Civil War”

Thursday 21 June

• Riek Machar and Salva Kiir peace talk:
  • The GoSS is open to having an opposition filling the vice president’s role. Yet, state official Michael Makuei Lueth said that the President Kiir refuses to work with Machar in the next Transitional Government of National Unity.
  • Machar rejected the current handling of peace negotiations by IGAD and called for a new and more comprehensive approach.
  • GoSS says that Machar is to be maintained in confinement in South Africa.
  • Machar and Kiir will continue the peace talks in Khartoum on Monday 25 June, also attended by Sudan’s President Omer al-Bashir and the Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni.
  • The Centre for Peace and Justice in South Sudan urged regional leaders to exclude both Kiir and Machar from the coalition government.

Friday 22 June

• Violence broke out between individuals from the Dinka and Nuer peoples in a refugee settlement in Uganda, which left four people dead and 19 others injured. The Ugandan police is detaining ten refugees.