After negotiators of the two South Sudanese warring parties failed to meet a deadline set for agreeing on power sharing on Tuesday, Sudanese mediators decided to extend the talks again until Thursday.
The rivals expressed strong reservations over the revised Entebbe peace proposal presented to them by the mediation team on Monday.
Edmund Yakani, a delegate of the South Sudan civil society groups at the peace talks, told Radio Tamazuj that the parties agreed to initial the deal on 19 July.
“The parties did not sign any agreement on Tuesday. The agreement will be initialled on Thursday after the warring parties commented on the proposed agreement,” Yakani said.
“So the final draft proposal will be submitted to the parties by the mediators on Wednesday and then the parties will initial the agreement on Thursday around 12 o’clock,” he added.
Yakani noted that the warring parties had agreed in principle to sign the proposed peace plan.
The leading civil society activist revealed that the final signing of the peace agreement will take place in Khartoum on 26 July. He pointed out that the signing ceremony will be attended by regional leaders.