Addis Ababa, April 02, 2016(WIC)- Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn has on Thursday held talks with the South Sudanese First Vice President designate, Riek Machar in Addis Ababa, Machar’s press secretary said as quoted by Sudan Tribune (ST).
“First Vice President designate, H.E. Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon (Chairman and C-in-C, SPLM/SPLA-IO), met with the Ethiopian Premier, H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn (IGAD Chairman), on Thursday, 31 March, 2016, in Addis Ababa,” according to James Gatdet Dak who posted the news on his Facebook page.
The information indicated that Hailemariam and Machar discussed the steps being taken and challenges being faced in the implementation of the Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in South Sudan (ARCSS).”
The top opposition leader of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) left the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Wednesday after holding meetings with the Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta.
In a briefing to the South Sudanese community in Nairobi, he called on members of the opposition’s leadership in Nairobi to begin to move to Juba in preparation for his soon return.
Machar for the last one month reportedly toured a number of African countries and met with their respective presidents and prime ministers, briefing them about the issues in the implementation of the peace deal and asking for their support for its full implementation.
He met with leaders representing East, West, South and North of the African regional blocs in the African Union (AU).