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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Monday last week sent a circular to all SPLA-IO forces declaring the breakaway SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction has become a part of the South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces (SSPDF).<\/p>\n

This comes after General Simon Gatwech Dual, the leader of the Kitgwang faction, and General Johnson Olony Thabo, the leader of the Agwelek forces, signed agreements with President Salva Kiir Mayardit\u2019s government paving way for the integration of their forces into the South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

In the circular, Machar urged his forces to cease all hostility with General Gatwech\u2019s forces because, according to him, he has become a part of the South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces which is a peace partner to the main armed opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kit Gwang group has signed on January 16, 2022, in Khartoum, a defection agreement to SSPDF and SPLM-IG called \u2018Khartoum Peace Agreement\u2019, the agreement is written in two documents namely: 1. Agreement between the Sudan Peoples\u2019 Movement in Government (SPLM-IG) and the Sudan Peoples\u2019 Liberation Movement\/Army-in Opposition (SPLM\/A-IO) Kit Gwang on status of forces; and 2. Khartoum Peace Agreement (KPA) between the Sudan Peoples\u2019 Liberation Movement-in Government and Agwelek Forces,\u201d Machar wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy this agreement, Kit Gwang has joined SSPDF and SPLM-IG, and forces of Kit Gwang group are now part of SSPDF. As such, SPLM\/SPLA-IO forces are to disengage and ceasefire with Kit Gwang forces, just like the currently existing ceasefire between the SPLM\/SPLA (IO) and the SSPDF as per the Khartoum Declaration of Agreement of 27 June 2018 which came into effect on 1 July 2018,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He also ordered his forces to secure navigation on the White Nile. For his part, Puok Both Baluang, the SPLM-IO director of information and acting spokesman for first vice president, confirmed Machar\u2019s message to all his SPLA-IO units and said they remain committed to implementing the revitalized peace agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is an internal communication to our forces after the Kit Gwang group signed an agreement to join the SPLM-IG and SSPDF last Sunday in Khartoum,\u201d Both said, according to Radio Tamazuj.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. South Sudan\u2019s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Monday last week sent a circular to all SPLA-IO forces declaring the breakaway SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction has become a part of the South Sudan People\u2019s Defense Forces (SSPDF). 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