CAIRO, Sept 15 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt sent aid shipments to Juba, as part of its efforts to support the implementation of the 2018 peace agreement in South Sudan, Egyptian Foreign Ministry said.
Three shipments of aid, including medicine, tents and military uniforms, were sent to Juba consecutively on Sept 11, 12 and 13, the ministry said in a statement.
According to the statement, two more shipments will be sent on Sunday (today) and Monday (tomorrow), noting that the purpose of the aid is to support the establishment of South Sudanese forces’ cantonment camps and rehabilitate the forces to work within state institutions.
The move was coordinated with the United Nations.
On Monday, South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir, and opposition leader, Riek Machar, who signed a peace deal in 2018, agreed to speed up screening and registration of their forces that will form the unified 83,000 forces to provide security in the country.
After a meeting in Juba, the two leaders said they have chosen the path of peace and are confident that the signatories to the revitalised peace agreement could agree on most outstanding issues, such as security arrangements and number of states before forming a unity government in Nov.
Under the new peace deal, signed in Sept, 2018, opposition leader Machar with four others, will once again be reinstated as Kiir’s deputy.
A peace deal signed in Aug, 2015, collapsed following renewed violence in the capital Juba in July, 2016.– NNN-MENA