President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir has signed a peace deal
on Wednesday to end a 20-month conflict with rebels, but he told regional
African leaders at the ceremony that he had “serious reservations”. Kiir, who has led South Sudan since it seceded
from Sudan in 2011, had asked for more time for consultations last week,
drawing threats of U.N. sanctions if he failed to ink it within a two-week
deadline. The deal follows months of on-off negotiations, hosted by Ethiopia,
and several broken ceasefire agreements.
"With all those reservations that we have, we will sign this
document," he told African leaders who had gathered in Juba for the ceremony,
speaking shortly before he signed.
His long-time rival and rebel leader Riek Machar, who is
expected to become the First Vice President under the deal, put his pen to the
document last week in the Ethiopian capital.
T he conflict erupted in December 2013 after a power
struggle between between Machar, an ethnic Nuer, and Kiir, from the dominant
Dinka group. Fighting has increasingly followed ethnic lines.
Thousands of people have been killed, many of the 11 million
population have been driven to the brink of starvation and 2 million people
have fled their homes, often to neighbouring states. It has unsettled an
already volatile region.
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