Pa'gan Amum Okiech

Lam Akol Ajawin of the South Sudan Democratic Movement; Pa'gan Amum Okiech leader of the Real Sudan People's Liberation Movement (currently in opposition) and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior the Fourth Vice-President in the transitional government and widow of former President John Garang are all likely contenders for the presidency but will not stand against Kiir until the peace agreement has been implemented say insiders (AC Vol 59 No 19 No cash no peace)...

Attempts to bring hold-out forces on board by the Rome-based Sant'Egidio Catholic community resulted in a truce with the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance coalition of nine groups including those led by powerful former army chief Paul Malong Awan former deputy chief of staff and Equatorian strongman Thomas Cirillo Swaka and former secretary-general of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) Pa'gan Amum Okiech...

The political heavyweights among the grouping of Former Detainees also remain aloof particularly former SPLM Secretary-General Pa'gan Amum Okiech former security chief Majak D'Agoot and former Foreign Minister Deng Alor Kuol...

They have been represented at the talks by former SPLM secretary general prominent Shilluk politician Pagan Amum Okiech...

Ethiopia spearheads the Forum but Uganda has a plan to reunite the Sudan People's Liberation Movement backing Salva while courting the Former Detainees group the loose collection of unarmed SPLM politicians led by ex-party secretary-general Pagan Amum Okiech who were detained by Salva in December 2013 but soon released into Kenyan custody (AC Vol 55 No 3 A deal under duress)...

The rebel leader former Vice- President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and the reinstated Secretary General of the governing Sudan People's Liberation Movement Pa'gan Amum Okiech had already signed...

That appears to be the main reason for Museveni's abrupt departure from the meeting in Addis Ababa before rebel Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement Secretary General Pa'gan Amum Okiech had signed on 17 August...

After low­-profile negotiations on reuniting the SPLM in Arusha Tanzania which many South Sudanese view as more home­grown than the IGAD talks Riek has been reinstated as SPLM Vice­-Chairman and G­-10 Spokesperson Pa'gan Amum Okiech as party Secretary General...

THE PEACE DEAL ON THE TABLE The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development draft peace deal for South Sudan: key points and progress It includes an 'unconditional' apology for the conflict: approved in principle in the Arusha agreement on the reunification of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and endorsed by reinstated SPLM Secretary General Pa'gan Amum Okiech...

The last four freed on 25 April are: Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth Majak d'Agot Atem Pa'gan Amum Okiech and Oyay Deng Ajak (AC Vol 55 No 6 Talks or treason trials)...

He welcomed the release of the last four detainees: Ezekiel Lol Gatkuoth Majak d'Agot Atem Pa'gan Amum Okiech and Oyay Deng Ajak...