Your weekly roundup of key political stories from Sudan and South Sudan:
Rebels’ Pagak meeting rejects 28 states (Radio Tamazuj, 23 January 2015) – South Sudan’s main rebel group SPLM-IO announced yesterday that its leadership meeting held at Pagak resulted in a decision to insist on keeping ten states in the country for the time being.
‘Former detainee’ Chol Tong Mayay defects to Kiir’s SPLM faction (Radio Tamazuj, 19 January 2015) – Ex-Lakes state governor Chol Tong Mayay annnounced that he has defected from the SPLM-G10 ‘Former Detainees’ faction to join the the SPLM faction loyal to South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir.
S Sudan minority leader criticizes parliament for sitting without IO members (Radio Tamazuj, 19 January 2015) – South Sudan’s parliamentary minority leader Onyoti Adigo Nyikuac has criticized his fellow legislators for debating the NGO bill in the absence of the 50 members who were nominated by the SPLM-In Opposition.
Ngok chief blames Khartoum for delay of peace meeting with Misseriya (Radio Tamazuj, 19 January 2015) – A peace meeting scheduled to take place on Weekday between the Ngok Dinka and the Arab Misseriya tribes at Diffra area in the north of Abyei has been postponed, a Ngok Dinka chief said.
Riek Machar won’t come to Juba unless 28 states revoked: spokesman (Radio Tamazuj, 18 January 2015) – SPLM/A-IO leader Riek Machar will not return to South Sudan’s capital Juba unless President Salva Kiir revokes the 28 administrative districts he created unilaterally in October last year, the rebel leader’s spokesperson said.