Last week, Kiir is still delaying the signing of this agreement. The man who led South Sudan since the split from Sudan in 2011 it requested more time for consultations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
However, the steps that reap threat Kiir UN said in two weeks if a peace agreement was signed by the world organization will impose sanctions for the youngest country in the world.
South Sudanese Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said the signing of the agreement will be made when African leaders visited Juba. However, at that time President Kiir will also deliver a series of requirements related to sharing power with rivals, the rebel leader Riek Machar.
South Sudan civil war broke out in December 2013 in the aftermath of the power struggle between Riek Machar are ethnic Nuer with Kiir which is the dominant ethnic Dinka.
The civil war in the impoverished country more of a subsequent war between the two ethnic groups. Riek Machar, who had first signed the peace agreement, is the vice president of South Sudan Salva Kiir to be fired in 2013.
With the signing of the peace agreement, then Machar will most likely return to occupy his old position, the vice-president.
Signing the peace agreement was scheduled to be witnessed by President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Prime Minister of Ethiopia Hailemariam Desalegn.
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