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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny have agreed to graduate the long-awaited unified forces at the end of July, SPLM Secretary General Peter Lam Both said Friday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bills are in parliament and they are being debated, the command structure is already unified, and by the end of this month, the graduation of unified forces will take place,\u201d Lam told reporters during a press conference in Friday in Juba.<\/p>\n

According to the 2018 revitalized peace deal, the nation is supposed to train and graduate a unified force of 83,000 personnel to take charge of security during the transitional period until 2023 when elections are held.<\/p>\n

The unification of the army has been delayed amid missed deadlines.<\/p>\n

The process has also been hampered by the economic hardship in the country which has left the government with a limited resource envelope caused by the more than six years of conflict which broke out in December 2013.<\/p>\n

Some soldiers have in the past been abandoning the training centers due to a lack of food, medicines, and safe clean water.<\/p>\n

Opposition members of the government have argued that President Salva Kiir Mayardit\u2019s group, the SPLM-IG, is not willing to graduate the forces and that there is enough money in the country that could be used for the security arrangements.<\/p>\n

Kiir\u2019s side said on several occasions that there are no guns to graduate the first batch of 53,000, blaming the arms embargo imposed on the country in 2018 by the United Nations prior to the signing of the peace deal a few months later.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About South-Sudan<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan\u2019s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny have agreed to graduate the long-awaited unified forces at the end of July, SPLM Secretary General Peter Lam Both said Friday. \u201cThe bills are in parliament and they are being debated, the command structure is already unified, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":20468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-20469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"\nKiir, Machar agree to graduate unified forces before end of July - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South Sudan\u2019s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny have agreed to graduate the long-a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiir, Machar agree to graduate unified forces before end of July\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Sudan\u2019s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his first deputy Dr. Riek Machar Teny have agreed to graduate the long-a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-07-10T15:08:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-07-10T15:27:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_31.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"478\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kiir, Machar agree to graduate unified forces before end of July\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-07-10T15:08:25+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-07-10T15:27:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july\"},\"wordCount\":287,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/07\/postQueueImg_31.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-machar-agree-to-graduate-unified-forces-before-end-of-july\",\"name\":\"Kiir, Machar agree to graduate unified forces before end of July - 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