A South Sudanese refugee poses at a transitional camp run by Sudanese
Red Crescent where she arrived after fleeing battles between rebel and
government forces on January 26, 2014 in the western part of Sudan's
White Nile state near South Kordofan, and about 30 kms from South Sudan.
A two-day-old ceasefire in South Sudan is still not firmly in place,
the foreign minister of Norway, part of the so-called Troika with
Britain and the United States, said. AFP/PHOTO
KHARTOUM,
A
two-day-old ceasefire in South Sudan is still not firmly in place, the
foreign minister of Norway, part of the so-called Troika with Britain
and the United States, said Sunday.
"We see a very shaky ceasefire", Foreign Minister Borge Brende told AFP in an interview in the Sudanese capital.
His
comments, after talks with Sudanese officials, came as the South's
government and rebels traded accusations that each had breached the
ceasefire deal by attacking the other.
"Of course I'm
concerned and I think what this means is we also have to establish the
right monitoring tools and also verification tools so one can really
assess" the extent of compliance, Brende said.
The
Troika helped oversee implementation of a 2005 peace agreement which
ended Sudan's 22-year civil war and ultimately led to the South's
independence in 2011.
Since then, the Troika have
continued working together supporting peace and development in Sudan and
South Sudan, including through backing a regional-led initiative to end
weeks of fighting.
Forces loyal to South Sudan
President Salva Kiir have battled a loose coalition of army defectors
and ethnic militia nominally headed by sacked vice president Riek
Machar.
The seven-member East African regional bloc
IGAD, which includes Sudan, mediated talks in Ethiopia between South
Sudan's two warring sides.
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