{Addis Ababa \u2014 South Sudan’s former vice-president, Riek Machar, who leads the opposition faction of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO), is in Tanzania to attend the ongoing intraparty dialogue with president Salva Kiir’s faction.}<\/p>\n
Delegates from the two warring parties have been engaging in a series of negotiations in Arusha to try to bridge the rift created by divisions among party leaders which resulted in the violence that erupted on 15 December 2013.<\/p>\n
Machar, who returned to Addis Ababa on Friday from Pretoria in South Africa, arrived in Arusha on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“Yes, he arrived in Arusha on Sunday to grace the intra-SPLM dialogue,” the opposition leader’s spokesman, James Gatdet Dak, confirmed his travel to Sudan Tribune on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Dak said the rebel leader’s trip came in response to invitation by the Tanzanian president Jakaya Kikwete, also the chairman of the Tanzanian ruling party, The Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM).<\/p>\n
CCM has been sponsoring and moderating the intraparty talks since mid-last year in which the parties previously agreed on the agenda and guiding principles.<\/p>\n
Sources close to the talks suggested there was prospect of a breakthrough in the latest round of negotiations.<\/p>\n
The SPLM-IO faction had suggested the need to address the root causes including deficiencies in the party’s top leadership, hinting replacement as a positive step.<\/p>\n
Soudan Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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