By Gladys Fred Kole<\/p>\n
South Sudan\u2019s government appeals to the United States of America (USA) to consider supporting the efforts of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to resolve Sudan unrest.<\/strong><\/p>\n Acting South Sudan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deng Dau Deng shared the initiative at Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of AU Bureau of Assembly, in Nairobi, Kenya.<\/p>\n During the event, Dau held side-lane South Sudan-US bilateral discussion with US Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs, Ambassador Michele J. Sison, over the Sudan crisis.<\/p>\n According to a bilateral meeting disclosed on the official Facebook page of the foreign ministry, the two diplomats also discussed other issues of regional concern.<\/p>\n “The top of which is the current situation in Sudan and the implementation of the Revitalized Agreement.” the Facebook post indicated.<\/p>\n The minister had also discussed the worsening humanitarian situation in South Sudan due to dire pressure from the influx of many refugees and returnees.<\/p>\n Minister Dau also reportedly briefed the US diplomat on the role of H.E. President Salva Kiir Mayardit as the immediate South neighbor to Sudan.<\/p>\n He also cited the recent IGAD meeting in Djibouti and the subsequent summit in Cairo by the immediate neighbors of Sudan.<\/p>\n The IGAD meeting followed several ceasefires brokered by the United States of America and Saudi Arabia that failed, as fighting spread to other major towns of Sudan.<\/p>\n The armed conflict ensued between the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) under Gen. al Burkan and his then, deputy turned rival, Gen. Dagalo who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Force (RSF).<\/p>\n According to UN, at least 169,069 people in a devastating situation from Sudan have arrived in South Sudan since mid-April that marked the beginning of the crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n The UN said the crisis in Sudan continues to devastate civilian populations, and the situation continues to worsen.<\/p>\n It added that the number of arrivals is projected to continue increasing as the conflict in Sudan continues.<\/p>\n Since beginning of the conflict, over 3 million people have been displaced, according to the United Nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Gladys Fred Kole South Sudan\u2019s government appeals to the United States of America (USA) to consider supporting the efforts of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to resolve Sudan unrest. Acting South Sudan Minister of Foreign Affairs, Deng Dau Deng shared the initiative at Mid-Year Coordination Meeting of AU[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15985,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Dau.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15986,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}