{"id":45974,"date":"2023-10-22T14:02:16","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/us-diplomat-meets-leaders-of-new-south-sudan-opposition-coalition"},"modified":"2023-10-22T14:13:20","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T14:13:20","slug":"us-diplomat-meets-leaders-of-new-south-sudan-opposition-coalition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/us-diplomat-meets-leaders-of-new-south-sudan-opposition-coalition","title":{"rendered":"US diplomat meets leaders of new South Sudan opposition coalition"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span> <\/b>A senior United States diplomat on Friday met leaders of South Sudan\u2019s newly-established alliance, Coalition for Restoration of Democracy (CORD) in South Sudan, to discuss the country\u2019s would-be elections.<\/p>\n

In a communique on Thursday, Peter Biar Ajak, leader of Revive South Sudan Party (RSS), Garang Kuot, leader of Common People\u2019s Alliance (CPA), Goi Jooyul, representative of SPLM-IO Kitgwang, Suzzane Jambo, leader of Steps We64, Jongkor Mayol, leader of United Citizens for Change (UCC), and Deng Mayik Atem, leader of Red Army of South Sudan announced the formation of the new alliance.<\/p>\n

They called on other political organizations in South Sudan and affirmed \u201cour unity in diversity\u201d as well as their \u201cunwavering commitment to a shared vision of a democratic, diverse, liberated, and prosperous South Sudan.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a statement on Friday, a day after the formation of the alliance, the US State Department said its Coordinator for Global Democratic Renewal in the Office of the Under Secretary for Civilian Security, Human Rights and Democracy and senior official for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Erin M. Barclay had a \u201cproductive\u201d meeting with leaders of the alliance.<\/p>\n

\u201cSenior Official Erin Barclay had a productive discussion with leaders of the South Sudanese Coalition for Restoration of Democracy. Free and fair elections require everybody\u2019s right to express their views and participate in the political process without fear,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n

No further details were given about the meeting. The United States is one of a few Western countries who assisted South Sudan in its decades of war for independence from Sudan. Since independence of the new country, relations between South Sudan and the US have been in their lowest rating in history with US differing with South Sudan\u2019s leaders on human rights record following our break of war in 2013.<\/p>\n

In a peace agreement largely funded by the United States in 2018 to end the five-year-old conflict, the parties to the conflict agreed to form a unity government with the aim of preparing the country for its first democratic elections, but the leaders of South Sudan have been slow in the implementation of the peace agreement.<\/p>\n

The United States has called on the unity government to implement key provisions of the agreement so that an environment necessary for the elections is create, but there is no sign that the country will be elections or if it would be free and fair as the leaders have contradicted each other as to if the elections will indeed take place in 2024 as scheduled.<\/p>\n

Biar is one of the exiled opposition leaders calling for elections and his party, the RSSP, has expressed its interest in contesting against long-time leaders of the ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM), President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar.<\/p>\n

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

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