{The United Nations has requested that Uganda\u2019s president help mediate in a conflict in neighbouring South Sudan that erupted five days ago, a spokesman for the government said.}<\/p>\n
\u201cPresident [Yoweri] Museveni has been requested by the UN to mediate in that conflict,\u201d spokesman Ofwono Opondo said, adding that a Ugandan minister would join an east African mediation effort to South Sudan announced by the African Union.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, top ministers from four regional nations flew to troubled South Sudan on Thursday to kick start efforts to end days of fighting that has raised fears of a return to civil war in the young country.<\/p>\n
Kenya\u2019s Foreign Minister Amina Mohammad, who said she was \u201cen route to South Sudan to offer first hand assistance\u201d, told AFP she was with teams from Djibouti, Ethiopia and Uganda.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a regional issue and the government of Kenya must be part of the solution process,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
All are members of the regional body, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, whose members played key roles in pushing forward the 2005 deal that ended Sudan\u2019s two-decades long civil war with the south.<\/p>\n
Rwandan Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo offered her support.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe pray our brothers and sisters find room to talk and agree a way forward,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Agencies<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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