Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO) on Sunday called for return to an inclusive political process in South Sudan.

“We call on all the international and regional parties to pressure the two warring parties to go back to the negotiation table to implement the peace agreement,” said CEPO Executive Director Edmund Yakani.

The civil society leader's appeal echoes that by East African countries recently which urged the parties to the peace deal not to return to war. 

East Africa's IGAD bloc and the European Union, USA, UK and Norway jointly last week condemned the war call made by SPLM-IO rebel leader Riek Machar recently, saying that all parties – including Machar's faction – should seek to resolve their differences politically.

They said the political process should include "all parties, communities, factions, and voices," though they did not clarify on which policial process they are talking about. 

Yakani has called on IGAD mediators to pressure the warring parties to implement the peace deal. Yakani stressed that political will is important for the implementation of the peace agreement.