The People’s Liberal Party (PLP), one of the opposition parties out of the unity government in Juba, has urged opposition leader Riek Machar and First Vice President Taban Deng to reconcile and reunify the two factions of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In-Opposition (SPLM-IO).

Taban Deng was appointed by a faction of the opposition group in Juba as First Vice President in the chaotic days following Riek Machar’s withdrawal into hiding in July last year radically altered the dynamics within the SPLM-IO.

Peter Mayen Majongdit, leader of the People's Liberal Party, told Radio Tamazuj yesterday that the leaders of the two opposition factions should be invited for a peace forum outside the country to set aside their differences to ensure a smooth implementation of the signed peace agreement.

“There is no peace now in South Sudan. We cannot have a real peace unless the two factions led by Machar and Taban are reunified,” said Majongdit.

Majongdit proposed that the reunification initiative between the two factions should be spearheaded by mediators in Ethiopia for the sake of peace and stability in South Sudan.

He pointed out that a transitional government of national unity involving all political entities and key stakeholders in the country should be formed after the reconciliation process between Riek Machar and Taban Deng.