South Sudan president signs peace deal with rebels

‘South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has signed a long-awaited peace deal with rebels to end 20 months of deadly civil war in the African country following international pressure and a threat of sanctions by the United Nations.

The signing ceremony of the power-sharing agreement — known as the Compromise Peace Agreement — was held in the capital Juba on Wednesday and was witnessed by President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, and a number of Sudanese government representatives.

“The current peace we are signing today has so many things we have to reject… Such reservations, if ignored, would not be in the interests of just and lasting peace,” Kiir said at the ceremony, raising doubts about whether or not the peace accord would take hold.’

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