A meeting of the three SPLM factions is expected to
start in Arusha, Tanzania today, Tuesday as IGAD-led negotiations
between the government and opposition forces remain stalled.
Speaking to Radio Tamazuj yesterday, SPLM-G10 spokesman
John Luk confirmed that the government and SPLM-IO delegations have
already arrived in Arsuha. He pointed out that their group will arrive
this morning in Arusha in an effort to push for internal reconciliation
within the ruling party.
The SPLM-G10 leader Pagan Amum recently announced the
group's merger with the ruling party, but a few of the prominent G10
members have not yet returned from exile to Juba.
“The delegations have already arrived in Arusha; the opposition had
arrived since the last four days. The government delegation is on the
way to Arusha because it left Juba this morning,” Luk said.
He further said the agenda of the meeting is unclear,
but hinted that a tripartite committee will meet to implement the Arusha
reunification deal. He predicted that the meeting would take place
at noon today.
Tanzania's ruling CCM and South
Africa's ANC parties launched an effort last year to try to reunite the
separate factions of the Sudan Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM). The
CCM and ANC effort duplicated an intiative already begun by the
Ethiopian ruling party EPRDF, which is no longer involved in the
intra-party talks.
South Sudan broke apart and plunged into violence in
December 2013 following bitter disagreements within the top leadership
of the SPLM party, splintering the party into several groupings.
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