South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is calling the warring parties in Sudan to accept dialogue as solution to the ongoing conflict.
This came during the East Africa Regional Bloc IGAD’s summit in Kampala where the leader of Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Daglo attended while his rival Gen. Abdel Fattah al Burhan turned down the invitation.
President Kiir engaged the leader of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), Gen. Mohammed Hamdan Daglo in a sideline meeting while in Uganda and expressed the need for peaceful dialogue between the warring parties in Sudan.
He called for an immediate cessation of hostilities between the warring parties in the neighboring Sudan. Mr. Kiir tasked Kenyan President Dr. William Ruto to lead the IGAD mediation on the conflict in Sudan but the leader of the Sudan Army Force refused any talk mediated by IGAD.
President Kiir also participated in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit in Kampala, Uganda.
The 19th NAM summit organized under the theme; “Deepening Cooperation for Shared Global Affluence”, started on Friday through to Saturday and was chaired by Ugandan President, H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni.
Presidential Affairs Minister Bangasi Joseph Bakosoro briefed the media on key points from the communique issued following the IGAD summit, emphasizing the need to respect territorial borders about the tension between Ethiopia and Somalia
He said the meeting also addressed the need to open humanitarian corridors.
President Kiir held several separate meetings including bilateral talks with his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Saturday, to discuss bilateral ties, as well as regional and global issues of common interest for the people of both Uganda and South Sudan.
The president returned to Juba on Sunday with his accompanying delegation.