South Sudan’s main rebel group, Sudan People’s Liberation Army-in Opposition (SPLA-IO), said on Monday that they have no intention to return to war amid fears that a fragile 2018 peace deal could unravel.
Deputy Military spokesman, Lam Gabriel, said this on Monday in Juba.
Gabriel said the group was committed to the peace agreement and is open for talks with the government to address issues of security arrangements before the formation of a unity government in May.
South Sudan descended into civil war in late 2013 and the conflict has created one of the fastest growing refugee crises in the world.
The UN estimates that about four million South Sudanese have been displaced internally and externally.
A peace deal signed in August 2015 collapsed, following renewed violence in the capital, Juba in July 2016.
Under the 2018 peace deal, opposition leader, Riek Machar, will once again be reinstated as President Salva Kiir’s deputy.
But
there are concerns that the shaky peace deal may fail again over delays in
implementing key provisions of the accord.
