MOSCOW, September 30 (RIA Novosti) - The East African Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD), which has been mediating peace talks in Ethiopia between the warring South Sudanese factions announced Tuesday that the sides had agreed on the establishment of a federal system of government, The ABC News reported.
The structure and functions of the transitional government of national unity were “mostly agreed on”, IGAD said according to the report.
The factions are yet to agree on the exact date to introduce the federal system.
"The main challenge, of course, is the warring parties and the leaders of the warring parties are not committed for peaceful resolution and the commitment to stop the war and to stop killing among their own people has not become real concern of the warring parties," IGAD's Peace and Stability Director, Ambassador Tewolde Gebremeskel, said on Monday while talks were underway to the Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency, EBC.
The violence escalated last December after President Salva Kiir accused ex-vice-president, Riek Machar, of plotting to overthrow him. Thousands of people have been killed in the violence and more than a million displaced during the South Sudanese Civil War.
Despite signing a ceasefire earlier this year, the two factions continued fighting.
