{"id":45754,"date":"2025-04-03T14:58:37","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T11:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=45754"},"modified":"2025-04-04T15:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T12:05:06","slug":"african-delegation-arrives-in-juba-to-rescue-peace-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/african-delegation-arrives-in-juba-to-rescue-peace-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"African Delegation Arrives in Juba to Rescue Peace Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of African Union (AU) mediators arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Wednesday for talks aimed at preventing a new civil war. This follows last week&#8217;s decision to place First Vice President Riek Machar under house arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The AU delegation landed at Juba Airport on Wednesday, bringing with them the &#8220;Council of Elders,&#8221; which includes former Burundian President Domitien Ndayizeye and former Kenyan judge Effie Owuor.<\/p>\n<p>The Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), Machar\u2019s party, issued a statement warmly welcoming the arrival of the Council of Elders as part of ongoing efforts to ease tensions and support the peace process.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the AU\u2019s Peace and Security Council released a statement on Tuesday calling for the \u201cimmediate and unconditional release\u201d of Machar, warning that the recent developments pose a serious threat to the 2018 peace agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation of African Union (AU) mediators arrived in Juba, the capital of South Sudan, on Wednesday for talks aimed at preventing a new civil war. This follows last week&#8217;s decision to place First Vice President Riek Machar under house arrest. The AU delegation landed at Juba Airport on Wednesday, bringing with them the &#8220;Council &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45754"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45755,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions\/45755"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}