{"id":10864,"date":"2018-08-09T11:33:32","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:33:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10864"},"modified":"2018-08-09T11:34:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T11:34:45","slug":"south-sudans-kiir-grants-rebel-leader-machar-others-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=10864","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan’s Kiir grants rebel leader Machar, others amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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South Sudan President Salva Kiir<\/a>\u00a0offered amnesty to all those involved in the nation’s bloody five-year civil war as part of a recent agreement to end the fighting.<\/p>\n

Rebel leader Riek Machar<\/a>\u00a0was among those granted a pardon by Kiir.<\/p>\n

Those who “waged war against in the government” were granted a general amnesty, Kiir stated late Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The president also reiterated a call for his forces to observe a ceasefire agreed in June by both the government and Machar’s rebels.<\/p>\n

The decision came days after the warring parties struck a power-sharing agreement<\/a> to end the civil war, which has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.<\/p>\n

The deal gives the parties eight months to form a transitional government. The agreement was one of many signed over the past few years that have failed.<\/p>\n

South Sudan’s war began after Kiir accused his then-vice president, Machar, of plotting a coup against him in 2013.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s power-sharing agreement paves the way for Machar to return to South Sudan<\/a> as one of five vice-presidents under Kiir.<\/p>\n

A final peace accord must now be signed – under the auspices of a regional bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development – followed by the formation of a transitional government that will hold power for three years until elections can be organised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Sudan President Salva Kiir\u00a0offered amnesty to all those involved in the nation’s bloody five-year civil war as part of a recent agreement to end the fighting. Rebel leader Riek Machar\u00a0was among those granted a pardon by Kiir. Those who “waged war against in the government” were granted a general amnesty, Kiir stated late Wednesday.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":10865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}