SPLA COMPLETES 60 PERCENT BORDERS WITHDRAWAL

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The army on Tuesday had withdrawn 60 percent of its personnel from the border areas and the process should be completed by Sunday.

SPLA spokesperson Philip Aguer, who arrived on Tuesday in Juba from the border, told CRN over a phone interview that the withdrawal operations should finish in four days.

He said the UN monitors who were mandated by the African Union to verify the buffer zone were not on the ground in Jau yet.

Col Aguer said the withdrawal process started on Sunday in Jau and the SPLA forces were now ten kilometres south of that disputed area.

He added that the army was withdrawing from Kiir Adem and Tashwin.

On March 8, South Sudan and Sudan agreed on a timetable to implement the security arrangements signed at the end of September that include the demilitarization of a 20-kilometre corridor along the border.