Updated at 5:10PM, July 21, 2014(Pacific Time) July 21, 2014(Nyamilepedia) — An SPLM/SPLA delegation will be traveling to Uganda, for the first time since the conflict broke out in December, to meet the Ugandan government, in what the delegation believes would be a historic mission to stabilize the Great Lake region. According to Dr. Oyet…
Category: Eastern Africa
Museveni seeks Machar meet over exit strategy
By BARBARA AMONG, Special Correspondent July 19, 2014(EA) — Amid growing signs that South Sudan President Salva Kiir’s regime is crumbling, Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has intensified efforts to meet rebel leader and former vice president Riek Machar, in what observers say is a bid to find an exit strategy from the country. Ugandan intelligence officers…
IGAD deploys troops to South Sudan
July 8, 2014(Addis Ababa) — In March this year, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, IGAD agreed to deploy a regional force to South Sudan. Kenya, Rwanda and Ethiopia pledged to contribute to the mission. The first battalion from Ethiopia has already arrived in South Sudan. The deployment of three battalions from the east African states…
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