At the June meeting presidents Kenyatta Museveni and Kagame accompanied by Burundi's President Evariste Ndayishimiye and Salva Kiir of South Sudan finally agreed that a joint force would enter Congo-K in late July or August and go against all armed groups that refuse to lay down their weapons...

Mediation attempts by South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and by Turkey have made no progress...

According to South Sudanese sources Abiy accepted a proposal by Sudan's Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok for South Sudanese President Salva Kiir to mediate in talks with the TPLF...

But international pressure and the threat of financial support being cut appears to have forced President Salva Kiir Mayardit to finally relent...

Abiy and Issayas have made efforts to bring South Sudan into their orbit holding tripartite discussions with President Salva Kiir in 2019...

In a joint communiqué from Juba Sisi and South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit spoke of military and security cooperation...

President Salva Kiir's implementation of key already agreed processes is so slow his critics say it could eventually trigger a military response from the former rebels...

The same day however Mabior Garang de Mabior son of the liberation hero John Garang and prominent critic of his successor President Salva Kiir Mayardit resigned as deputy interior minister citing the failure of the national unity government to fully implement the provisions of the peace deal or to cope with the pandemic (AC Vol 59 No 19 No cash no peace)...