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Committee Urges Swift Formation of South Sudan Unity Government

Dimo Silva Aurelio

   JUBA - A committee formed to help resolve disputes over the boundaries
   and number of South Sudan states has turned the issue over to
   arbitration, adding the issue should not hold up formation of a unity
   government.

   After President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar failed to
   agree on the number of states and their borders during several
   face-to-face meetings in December, regional bloc IGAD appointed a
   committee to mediate the issue and come up with a proposal for the
   parties.

   The committee is comprised of South African Deputy President David
   Mabuza, Kenya's special envoy to the South Sudan peace talks Kalonzo
   Musyoka, Uganda's special envoy to South Sudan Betty Bigombe and IGAD
   envoy Ismail Waise.

   South Africa's Mabuza, the head of the committee, said in Juba Thursday
   his group consulted the parties to the deal but could not reach a
   compromise."

   We all agree that we are going to form the government of national
   unity, but we are going to subject the question of the number of states
   to arbitration; a mechanism that is going to take up to 90 days which
   is the proposal on the table," Mabuza told VOA's South Sudan in Focus.
   

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