Odinga is offering to mediate talks between the president and his former deputy to end the nearly 4½-year civil war in South Sudan. So, he should actually work to soften the position of the opposition," Makuei told the VOA radio program South Sudan in Focus. "The issues that we have been dealing with are governance issues, security issues, reform issues, how to arrest the humanitarian situation. All these are the issues at hand," Nathaniel told South Sudan in Focus. The warring parties could not agree on a power-sharing structure or details about how to absorb rebel forces into the South Sudan army.

Source: Ethiopian News June 06, 2018 00:33 UTC