The head of the mediation team in talks between the Sudanese government and rebel groups said that the final signing of a peace agreement between both parties will take place in early October.
A peace agreement was countersigned by the two parties at the end of August raising hope that a conflict which has spanned nearly two decades, particularly in western Darfur, will finally be brought to an end.
“The second of October is the date for the final signing of the peace agreement between the government and the ‘parties to the peace process’,” Tut Gatluak, who is also South Sudan’s presidential adviser on security affairs, said on Twitter.
Gatluak gave no further details on the development and no information on the same was availed by any party.
South Sudan has been mediating between the Sudanese government and leaders of the Sudan Revolutionary Front (SRF), a coalition of armed groups from Darfur, South Kordofan and Blue Nile regions.
Sudan’s transitional government, led by Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, has prioritized negotiations to strike a peace deal with rebel groups.
Hamdok signed a separate deal in Ethiopia with a faction of the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-North (SPLM-N), which declined to agree to the deal, arrived at in the South Sudanese capital Juba.
An end to the country’s multiple conflicts is a key condition for Sudan’s removal from the United States’ list of sponsors of terrorism.
