Your weekly roundup of key political stories from Sudan and South Sudan:
Kiir appoints 50 rebel-nominated members to parliament (Radio Tamazuj, 8 January 2016) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has appointed fifty people nominated by the SPLM-In Opposition to the transitional national legislative assembly.
South Sudan’s parties divide up ministries for power-sharing agreement (Radio Tamazuj, 8 January 2016) – South Sudan’s government, rebels, former detainees, and other political parties have divided up the ministries for the country’s proposed transitional power-sharing government, the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) announced Thursday.
South Sudan rebel defectors visit Juba for talks, deny split (Radio Tamazuj, 6 January 2016) – Gabriel Yoal Dok, part of a group of rebels from the Federal Democratic Party-South Sudan Armed Forces, denied Tuesday joining Salva Kiir’s government and said they remain part of the FDP-SSAF.
‘No need for Darfur referendum as National Dialogue covers its issues’ (Radio Tamazuj, 4 January 2016) – The head of the Federal Truth Party and member of 7 +7 National Dialogue Steering Committee strongly opposes the Darfur referendum, scheduled to be held in April.
AU requests ‘informal’ talks between Khartoum, JEM (Radio Tamazuj, 4 January 2016) – The African Union has proposed informal talks between the Sudanese government and the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM), according to JEM leader Jibril Ibrahim.