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      Report: AU Wants Kiir, Machar Barred From Future S. Sudan Government

   by VOA News

   A leaked African Union report calls for South Sudan's president and his
   main rival to be barred from a transitional government and for the
   war-torn country to be placed under AU control.

   Reuters news agency published an account of the report Friday as
   another round of talks to end South Sudan's 15-month conflict ended in
   Addis Ababa without a peace deal.

   According to Reuters, the report says President Salva Kiir and former
   deputy-turned-rebel leader Riek Machar should be barred from roles in a
   "transitional executive" body, along with all the ministers in power
   before the cabinet was dissolved in July 2013.

   The report recommends creation of an AU-appointed and U.N.-backed panel
   to oversee a five-year transition for South Sudan.  Oil revenue would
   go into an escrow account overseen by the African Development Bank.

   Reuters says the AU report also calls for creation of an African
   peacekeeping force made up of troops "without prior involvement or
   direct interest in South Sudan."

   There was no immediate response from the South Sudanese government.  A
   rebel spokesman in Addis Ababa, Puot Kang Chol, called for the full
   report to be released.

   "We have seen that and we have been demanding the publishing of that
   report. And we continue to demand the same - we want that report
   published so that we see it in full. We have not seen it in full, we
   have seen only part of it and we are not worried about the report. But
   we want to see it, we want it published officially," said Chol.
   The spokesman also said that if Machar is to be excluded from the
   transitional government, "there must be a legal basis for that."
   Fighting erupted in South Sudan in December 2013, six months after
   President Kiir fired Machar as vice president.  The fighting exposed
   ethnic divisions in the country, with the Dinka tribe supporting Kiir
   and the Nuer tribe backing Machar.
   Repeated cease-fires have failed to take hold.  The fighting has killed
   tens of thousands of people and displaced nearly two million.

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