General  Gatwech in Khartoum  for fresh talk with government  

General  Gatwech in Khartoum  for fresh talk with government

In a statement, James Kalany Mamuon, Gen. Gatwech’s media aide, said the invitation came as part of regional efforts to push for talks between President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government and General Gatwech’s group in a bid to curtail outbreak of escalatory violence in northern Upper Nile state.

South Sudan’s controversial opposition commander and leader of the breakaway SPLA-IO Kitgwang faction, General Simon Gatwech Dual, has returned to the Sudanese capital Khartoum following an invitation from the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a spokesman allied to Gatwech has said.

In a statement, James Kalany Mamuon, Gen. Gatwech’s media aide, said the invitation came as part of regional efforts to push for talks between President Salva Kiir Mayardit’s government and General Gatwech’s group in a bid to curtail outbreak of escalatory violence in northern Upper Nile state.

“The office of the Press Secretary, would like to inform the entire movement that, the Chairman and the Commander in Chief, of SPLM/A (IO) 1^st Lt Gen. Simon Gatwech Dual, accompanied by some senior officers within the SPLA (IO) rank and file, arrived to Khartoum this morning from Magenis/Kitgwang on the invitation of the IGAD (Sudan) to attend face to face meeting with the delegation of Government of South Sudan in Khartoum,” Mamuon said in a statement extended   to Thejubamirror news desk  on  midnight