Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan’s main armed opposition commander and head of the breakaway SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction, General Simon Gatwech Dual, has this evening arrived to the Sudanese capital Khartoum from Magenis, a spokesman for him said.
Gen. Gatwech who is accompanied by senior members of the opposition faction is expected to meet the Sudanese authorities and discuss the fate of the peace agreement he signed with President Salva Kiir’s SPLM faction in January this year in Khartoum.
“The Chairman and Commander in Chief of SPLA/M -IO Kitgwang 1st Lt Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual has arrived this evening to Khartoum from the SPLA/M-IO kitgwang headquarters, Magenis,” Col. Alfred Gach, the military spokesman of Gen. Gatwech’s group said in a statement to Sudans Post.
Gach said General Gatwech’s return to Sudan will assure the guarantors of his peace deal with Kiir of his commitment to ending the violence in the country through peaceful means.
“H is accompany by a number of senior military commanders and his coming to Khartoum will help to assure the Sudan Government his commitment for peace in South Sudan,” he said.
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