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Peace guarantors criticise South Sudan election postponement

BY REUTERS International guarantors of South Sudan’s peace process said the transitional government’s postponement of elections due in December was disappointing and showed its failure to implement a 2018 peace plan. Last Friday, South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s announced an extension of the transitional period by two years and postponed elections for a second time following a delay in 2022. South Sudan has formally been at peace since the 2018 agreement ended a five-year conflict responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, but violence between rival communities flares frequently. Britain, the United States, Norway, the European Union, Canada, France, Germany and the Netherlands – guarantors of the peace process since South Sudan’s independence from Sudan in 2011 – said the […] The post Peace guarantors criticise South Sudan election postponement first appeared on 93.3 KFM.

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