South Sudan’s cabinet on Friday approved a report on the regional bloc’s decision to relocate the exiled rebel leader Riek Machar from his house arrest in South Africa to another country outside the region when he repudiates violence.
“The report was good and it was adopted and passed,” said South Sudan’s Information Minister and Government Spokesman after a cabinet meeting.
Makuei said the Council of Ministers of the regional bloc, Inter Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), had decided to send a ministerial delegation to South Africa to discuss with South Sudan’s rebel chief to renounce violence before his relocation to another country.
The outspoken minister further said the prominent opposition leader will be relocated and allowed to take part in the peace process when he accepts to renounce violence.
The IGAD’s communiqué issued following its 61st Extra-Ordinary Session held last month in Addis Ababa, said it would release Machar if he would accept to renounce violence, not obstruct peace and relocate to any country outside the region not neighboring war-torn South Sudan.
But South Sudanese rebels have recently warned the region that they will never accept their leader relocates to another country after his release from house arrest in South Africa.
Machar’s deputy Henry Odwar said they have never obstructed the peace process in South Sudan.