{"id":68340,"date":"2024-11-12T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/tumaini-talks-stall-as-government-team-fails-to-show-up"},"modified":"2024-11-12T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-12T08:48:00","slug":"tumaini-talks-stall-as-government-team-fails-to-show-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/tumaini-talks-stall-as-government-team-fails-to-show-up","title":{"rendered":"Tumaini talks stall as government team fails to show up"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The resumption of the Tumaini Initiative talks on the South Sudan crisis was marred by confusion on Monday after the government side failed to turn up at the Nairobi venue.<\/p>\n

Last Friday, Kenyan Chief Mediator Gen (rtd) Lazaro Sumbeiywo extended invitations to the government and the opposition, aimed at resolving the conflicts. That came after Kenyan President William Ruto\u2019s visit to Juba, where he held talks with his South Sudan counterpart Salva Kiir, First Vice-President Riek Machar and other key stakeholders in the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGoNU), to resume talks in Nairobi to address the outstanding issues.<\/p>\n

A few hours after President Ruto\u2019s visit to Juba, Kiir fired the Presidential Special Envoy and Head of the Government Delegation to the Tumaini Initiative, Albino Mathom.<\/p>\n

The talks are part of the peace process, launched in May 2024, aiming to mediate conflicts involving the holdout opposition groups that have yet to endorse the 2018 Revitalized Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in South Sudan (R-ARCSS).<\/p>\n

Pagan Amum, who leads a faction of the holdout group, the South Sudan Opposition Movements Alliance (SSOMA), told Radio Tamazuj Monday afternoon that the talks failed to resume because the government delegation was absent.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe government delegation has failed to show up at the venue of the talks. We met the mediation and asked them about the resumption as scheduled, but the mediation told us that the government delegation had not formed a team,\u201d Amum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will be waiting for the mediators until further notice,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

For his part, Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth, who is the rapporteur for the government delegation at the Tumaini Initiative, revealed that they had not received any instructions from President Salva Kiir\u2019s office to attend the talks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe talks are supposed to begin today, but we have not yet received any directive to go,\u201d Minister Makuei told Radio Tamazuj.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the Executive Director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization (CEPO), Edmund Yakani, expressed disappointment with the government delegation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe absence of the government delegation today demonstrates a lack of consensus in constituting the delegation, including the appointment of the leader after the President dismissed the previous one,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems the anti-Tumaini group is very influential in delaying the rollout of the Phase Two mediation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

The civil society activist urged President Kiir to appoint the government head of delegation, pointing out that it should be someone with political discipline and maturity in embracing compromises.<\/p>\n

\u201cI also urge the opposition leaders in Nairobi to embrace political compromise,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Kenya-led peace talks encountered a setback in July, when some government representatives raised concerns over some proposed mechanisms.<\/p>\n

The Tumaini Initiative brings together major holdout groups, including the Real Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement of Pagan Amum; the South Sudan United Front, led by former SSPDF Chief of Staff Paul Malong Awan; and the South Sudan People\u2019s Movement\/Army (SSPM\/A), under Gen Stephen Buoy Rolnyang.<\/p>\n

Major international donors in South Sudan, including the Troika group, have voiced support for the Tumaini Initiative.<\/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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