ADDIS ABABA – The transitional period in South Sudan has been extended for additional two years, its leaders announced on Thursday.
Juba said the decision to extend the transition period will help to address outstanding tasks outlined in the 2018 peace deal that ended the civil war in South Sudan.
The peace deal calls for security, judicial, constitutional and electoral reforms to stabilize South Sudan led by President Salva Kiir and vice president Riek Machar, who formed a unity government more than two years ago.
Martin Elia Lomuro, South Sudan's minister of cabinet affairs, said the decision was taken "to address the challenges that impede the implementation of the peace agreement".
"Thus a new roadmap has been agreed," said the minister, speaking in the presence of President Kiir and his deputy Machar.
- Addis stands with Juba -
On Friday, Ethiopia said the consultative process to extend the mandate of the transitional government in South Sudan through consensus was “commendable”.
The Ethiopian government is “confident that this wisdom and spirit of compromise will continue to guide expeditious” implementation of the remaining tasks of the Transitional Period, said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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