The East African regional bloc IGAD said it would unveil a reviewed proposal for peace between South Sudan’s warring parties, a top opposition official said.
The IGAD mediation has given the South Sudan warring parties at the negotiating table in Addis Ababa, a 21 May deadline to sign a final peace agreement.
Recent consultations between the parties in Addis Ababa broke up without concessions when they last met on 12 May, in an effort to solve a political row that plunged the country into a civil war.
Angelina Teny, the wife of South Sudan’s prominent opposition leader Riek Machar, said the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said it will come up with a peace proposal based on the different positions presented by the parties.
“IGAD has proposed during the recent consultations that they will come up with a proposal, so a member of the delegations proposed that South Sudanese parties can be given a couple of days to try to move forward,” she said.
Angelina, who is a leading member of the SPLM-IO group, said the intra-South Sudanese dialogue was proposed by South Sudanese in an effort to solve their problems after the mediation had proposed to come up with a ready peace plan.