Kenyan president mediates negotiations between South Sudanese government and the militants

Kenya’s president, William Ruto, has mediated negotiations between the South Sudanese government and rebel blocs that did not sign the 2018 peace deal.

At the end of last year, South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, asked Kenya to lead the Rome Process initiated by St. Egidhya, the Catholic Civil Association.

President William Ruto confirmed that Kenya was taking the necessary measures to take command and transfer the operation to Nairobi.

“I have accepted my brother, President Salva Kiir’s request, for the remaining phase of the peace talks taking place between the government of South Sudan and the disagreed opposition parties,” Ruto said.

In December 2013, inter-ethnic armed conflicts broke out in South Sudan, between government forces (the Sudan People’s Liberation Army) and opposition forces, causing a civil war.

In 2020, a coalition government of representatives of the two main peoples was formed following the end of the war.