WASHINGTON — 18 February 2017 The head of the organization monitoring South Sudan’s shaky 2015 peace deal has sparked controversy by saying rebels who fought the administration of President Salva Kiir should return to Juba, South Sudan. Former Botswana president Festus Mogae chairs the Joint Evaluation and Monitoring Commission, or JMEC, which oversees the deal Read More …

Following the collapse of South Sudan’s ruling Party, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM); President Kiir has orchestrated a crisis within the army, divided the country along tribal lines and is now shredding the once cordial ethnic harmony that was a hallmark of the people of South Sudan. A South Sudanese expert describes a nation Read More …