President and SPLM/A-IO leader met on Wednesday for the first time since 2016 when fighting re-erupted between their forces, Chief of staff of the Ethiopian Prime Minister disclosed.
Fitsum Arega in his twitter said Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed hosted a private dinner to President Salva Kiir and Dr Riek Machar together.
Kiir and Machar met individually with Abiy before the three sat down together, he added.
This is a last-ditch attempt but a serious one to broker a deal,’ said Alan Boswell, an independent researcher on South Sudan.
South Sudanese Civil Society Forum on Wednesday urged the two sides to reach a sustainable peace agreement.
The activists remind the two top leaders of their moral and political obligations to meaningfully reconcile with each other and with all other political leaders in South Sudan.
Kenyan President Kenyatta on Thursday joined other regional leaders in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia to meet South Sudan President Salva Kiir and Dr Riek Machar.