S.Sudan rivals seal security pact in peace 'milestone'

Juba (AFP) April 3, 2022

In what has been hailed as a major breakthrough, South Sudan's rival leaders sealed an agreement Sunday on a key military provision in a stuttering peace deal and vowed to silence their guns. President Salva Kiir and his rival, Vice President Riek Machar, agreed on the creation of a unified armed forces command, one of several deadlocked issues holding up implementation of the 2018 pact to e