South Sudan President Salva Kiir Speech during Sudan and main rebel group peace talks in Juba

Sudan’s transitional government and the main rebel group have kicked off a new round of peace talks, officials have said, the latest effort to end a decades-long conflict in the East African country.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir is hosting the talks between the Sudanese government and the Sudan Popular Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), led by Abdel-Aziz al-Hilu.
General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, head of the ruling sovereign council, Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok and al-Hilu attended a ceremonial meeting on Wednesday.
Kiir urged both sides to “embrace the spirit of dialogue and let their attention shift to peace instead of thinking of war”.
“I believe that war will never save us. You have seen we [the South Sudanese] fought for 21 years up to 2005, with all of that we did not get what we wanted in full,” Kiir said.


SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES