S.Sudan holds breath as fragile peace faces crucial test via SABCNewsOnline
A group of South Sudanese returnees gather at the County Commissioners office in Udier town, South Sudan, on March 9, 2019. - Encouraged by a six-month lull in fighting as a peace deal holds for the first time since 2015, scores of South Sudanese are warily returning home from Ethiopia and Sudan.South SudanEncouraged by a six-month lull in fighting as a peace deal holds for the first time since 2015, the family last month joined scores of others warily returning home from Ethiopia and Sudan.
“The two sides stopped fighting. That’s the good news. But now they’re stuck on nearly everything else,” said Alan Boswell, a South Sudan expert with the International Crisis Group . Observers warn that reuniting arch-rivals President Salva Kiir and rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar in government for a third time without resolving these issues could be a recipe for further disaster.
When the deal fell apart in July 2016, the capital was engulfed by a brutal battle between their rival armies. Machar fled on foot with the fighting spreading across the country. “It is a real dilemma for donors if you fund cantonment and it becomes an incentive for further recruitment.”“The peace agreement calls for much more fiscal transparency. It isn’t there. If it was, there would be a lot different reaction from donors,” said the diplomat.When it won independence in 2011, the country was divided into 10 states but it has since been subdivided into 32, in what many critics see as a gerrymandering of traditional boundaries by Kiir to shore up his power.
“Can brokers patch the peace deal enough to keep the parties from sliding back to war?” said Boswell.
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