South Sudan hopeful as combatants troop to centres for integration
South Sudan Opposition Alliance, a coalition of rebel groups, welcome the arrival of ceasefire and transitional security arrangements personnel to oversee the peace deal to their village on October 17, 2019. PHOTO | DIMO SILVA AURELIO | AFP
What you need to know:
On December 31, the Joint Military Ceasefire Commission transported government and opposition forces to a training centre in Masana Beera, Wau State.
Preparations to train the unified forces came one month after the national government allocated $16.5 million for the security mechanisms to speed up the creation of unified forces, a key requirement of the 2018 peace deal.
But the more contentious issues of the number of states remains pending with the government insisting maintain the 32 states or more, while Dr Machar’s SPLM-IO has been pushing for the country to revert to the 10 states as per the 2015 peace agreement.
