The South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has offered to mediate in the ongoing political transition in Sudan after last week’s fall of Omar al-Bashir.
Kiir’s office said he was ready to support the democratic aspirations of his former adversary in Khartoum and help bring about a peaceful transition.
South Sudan’s official said he traveled to Khartoum to meet the new leadership, alongside a high-level delegation that included Juba’s security service chief and a presidential adviser on security.
Kiir’s move comes seven months after Bashir helped mediate a shaky peace deal between Kiir and the main opposition rebel group in South Sudan, which won independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of conflict.
