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The government of South Sudan and the rebels of the National Salvation Front (NSF) announced in Rome the signing of a ceasefire agreement.
The National Salvation Front, which operates mainly in the southern states of the country, has frequently clashed with government forces.
But thanks to international mediation, the shootings should stop between the two forces.
“What were the results of this meeting? It was the parties’ commitment to the ceasefire and, above all, the decision to organize a meeting between the military from both sides to ensure that the opposition is included in the mechanism for monitoring violations of the ceasefire.”Said the general secretary of Sant’Egidio, Paolo Impagliazzo, who led the negotiations between the government representative Barnaba Marial Benjamin and the representative of the National Salvation Front (NSF), Thomas Cirillo Swaka.
Despite the efforts of other rebel groups, the National Salvation Front had not signed the September 2018 peace agreement. Thomas Cirillo, the leader of the rebel group agreed to a ceasefire earlier this year, but it was not respected .
More than 380,000 have died and 4 million people, a third of the country’s population, have been displaced, in a seven-year-long civil war that officials now hope to finally end.
