{"id":26351,"date":"2022-10-25T17:53:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T17:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance"},"modified":"2022-10-25T18:10:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T18:10:31","slug":"pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance","title":{"rendered":"Pagan, Cirillo, Malong ditch SSOMA for new alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>Political and military leaders of the groups formerly known as South South Opposition Movement Alliance have renamed themselves the Non-signatories, ahead of the Rome peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>Garang Malual, the spokesperson of South Sudan United Front \u2013 under Malong Awan, said the former SSOMA has now rebranded as Non-signatories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, we have that body now, you are correct there. What next is on the mediator\u2019s cost, and they are the ones to tell us what next, and now we don\u2019t have a thing to do with SSOMA anymore,\u201d Malual said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now in this new grouping and it\u2019s comprising of the real SPLM, and NAS and SSUF, whom I may represent and we are one team these days, we want to bring peace in South Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new name was agreed in the Italian capital Rome, following meetings with IGAD and TROIKA partners two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting \u2013 convened by the faith-based group St. Egidio Community, brought together generals Paul Malong of SSUF, Thomas Cirillo of the National Salvation Front and Pagan Amum of The Real SPLM.<\/p>\n<p>Cirilo, whose armed group \u2013 the NAS previously abandoned SSOMA, participated in the dialogue to prepare the opposition leaders for the next round of talks with delegation of the Juba-based unity government.<\/p>\n<p>The Rome peace process stalled in August last year, after President Kiir pulled out of the talks, accusing NAS of an attack that killed two catholic nuns along the Nimule-Juba Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Buy at the recent graduation of the unified forces in Juba, President Salva Kiir called on the hold groups to join the peace process.<\/p>\n<p>He said his government was ready to work with the groups to end the conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. Political and military leaders of the groups formerly known as South South Opposition Movement Alliance have renamed themselves the Non-signatories, ahead of the Rome peace talks. Garang Malual, the spokesperson of South Sudan United Front \u2013 under Malong Awan, said the former SSOMA has now rebranded as Non-signatories. \u201cIn fact, we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-26351","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":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pagan, Cirillo, Malong ditch SSOMA for new alliance - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Political and military leaders of the groups formerly known as South South Opposition Movement Alliance have renamed the ...\" \/>\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\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pagan, Cirillo, Malong ditch SSOMA for new alliance\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Political and military leaders of the groups formerly known as South South Opposition Movement Alliance have renamed the ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance\" \/>\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=\"2022-10-25T17:53:07+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-10-25T18:10:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14-63582671ee0b6.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1351\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1333\" \/>\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=\"2 minutes\" \/>\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\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Pagan, Cirillo, Malong ditch SSOMA for new alliance\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-10-25T17:53:07+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-10-25T18:10:31+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance\"},\"wordCount\":301,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2022\/10\/postQueueImg_14-63582671ee0b6.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\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/pagan-cirillo-malong-ditch-ssoma-for-new-alliance\",\"name\":\"Pagan, Cirillo, Malong ditch SSOMA for new alliance - 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