{"id":49512,"date":"2019-11-08T11:38:16","date_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49512"},"modified":"2019-11-08T11:38:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-08T03:38:18","slug":"un-urges-immediate-progress-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=49512","title":{"rendered":"UN urges &#8216;immediate progress&#8217; in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/UN-urges-immediate-progress-in-South-Sudan-797085?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/354\/35411010.295.jpg\" alt=\"Rivals Riek Machar (L) and President Salva Kiir have until 12 November 2019 to form a unity govt\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Rivals Riek Machar (L) and President Salva Kiir <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The UN Security Council has urged South Sudan President Salva Kiir and former rebel leader Riek Machar to make &#8220;immediate progress&#8221; in forming a unity government.<br><br>The two rivals have a deadline of Nov 12, 2019 to form the government, although Machar has already asked for a six-month extension.<br><br>In a statement, the UN Security Council said it was concerned that there was no &#8220;substantive progress on implementation of key elements&#8221; of a peace agreement signed last year to end a civil conflict between forces loyal to the two leaders.<br><br>A statement read by the UK&#8217;s Jonathan Allen urged Kiir and Machar &#8220;to make immediate progress on pre-transitional tasks including security arrangements and a process for the resolution of the number and boundaries of states&#8221;.<br><br>The two leaders were also told to &#8220;publicly reaffirm commitment to full implementation of the peace agreement&#8221;.<br><br>The pair are set to meet for talks in the Ugandan capital Kampala later on Thursday.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>&#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rivals Riek Machar (L) and President Salva Kiir UNITED NATIONS, Nov 8 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; The UN Security Council has urged South Sudan President Salva Kiir and former rebel leader Riek Machar to make &#8220;immediate progress&#8221; in forming a unity government. The two rivals have a deadline of Nov 12, 2019 to form the government, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49512"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}