South Sudan frets over whether Sudan coup will derail fragile peaceThursday’s military coup in Sudan sparked anxiety in neighbouring South Sudan that the toppling of longtime President Omar al-Bashir could scupper a fragile agreement that ended South Sudan’s five-year civil war.South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and former rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace agreement last year that calls on them to form a unity government on May 12. SEE ALSO :Kenya as the weakest link in Lapsset projectBoth the South Sudanese government and former rebels expressed alarm over the coup. “Sudan laboured so hard to restore peace and stability and because of that we have the current prevailing peace agreement in South Sudan and it is a guarantor,” Martin Elia Lomoro, South Sudan’s cabinet affairs minister, said in a meeting with international ceasefire monitors. Two years later, South Sudan plunged into its own intermittent civil war, with some 400,000 people killed and nearly a third of the population uprooted. Both countries desperately needed the cash generated by oil from South Sudan flowing through a pipeline and port owned by Sudan.

Source: Standard Digital April 12, 2019 09:56 UTC