AU Security Council Calls for Machar's Release, End to Hostilities

Leaders urged to commit to peaceful elections by December 2026

By Aguok Chok South Sudan leaders have been urged to get it right this time round end ensure peace and stability in the country before the December 2026 elections. Civil rights activist, Edmund Yakani said political and armed leaders should commit to credible, peaceful, and non-violent elections by December 2026. Yakani expressing his deep concern for the country’s slow progress in transitioning from conflict to peace. “With the high respect and…

AU Security Council calls for Machar's release, end to hostilities

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (Eye Radio) – The African Union’s Peace and Security Council (PSC), meeting, expressed “deep concern” over the political and security situation in South Sudan and called for the release of First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar. In a statement adopted on June 12, 2025, and shared with Eye Radio on June 18, 2025, the African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) issued a stark warning of a potential “civil war” in South Sudan…

OPP distances itself from PLP leader Majongdit’s call for dialogue - Radio Tamazuj

The Other Political Parties (OPP), a grouping of political parties that signed the 2018 revitalized peace agreement, has said it is not part of the call by People’s Liberal Party (PLP) leader Peter Mayen Majongdit’s call for dialogue to salvage the South Sudan peace process. Last Friday, Mayen unveiled the “Juba Initiative of the Parties,” claiming it was a call by the OPP for dialogue among signatories of the peace agreement. He said his group …