{"id":2954,"date":"2014-06-21T11:54:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-21T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=2954"},"modified":"2014-06-21T11:54:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-21T04:54:19","slug":"south-sudans-religious-leaders-call-for-peace-negotiations-to-restart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudans-religious-leaders-call-for-peace-negotiations-to-restart\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan&#8217;s religious leaders call for peace negotiations to restart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders from South Sudan have urged the country&#8217;s warring factions to renew their negotiations, warning that the boycott of peace talks is costing lives.<\/p>\n<p>Both the government of President Salva Kiir and rebels loyal to former vice-president Riek Machar are refusing to restart talks aimed at ending six months of bloodshed, which has already killed thousands and displaced 1.3 million people.<\/p>\n<p>The government says it objects to comments made by Mahboub Maalim \u2013 the executive secretary of the East African bloc brokering the talks, Igad \u2013 who said the idea that a military solution to the conflict could be pursued was &#8220;stupid&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Rebels, meanwhile, have objected to the participation in the talks of civil society groups, religious organisations and other political parties, complaining that they were not involved in the selection process.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We fear that the warring parties may want to resort to war, it&#8217;s kind of a delaying tactic,&#8221; South Sudanese Bishop Enoch Tombe Stephen said in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, where the talks are supposed to be held&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jun\/19\/south-sudan-religious-leaders-new-peace-talks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"South Sudan\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/\">South Sudan<\/a> News<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Religious leaders from South Sudan have urged the country&#8217;s warring factions to renew their negotiations, warning that the boycott of peace talks is costing lives. Both the government of President Salva Kiir and rebels loyal to former vice-president Riek Machar are refusing to restart talks aimed at ending six months of bloodshed, which has already [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[550],"tags":[258,256,4695,1311,257,556,254,4700,733,1310],"class_list":["post-2954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-east-africa","tag-enoch-tombe-stephen","tag-news","tag-president-salva-kiir","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-south-sudanese-bishop-enoch-tombe-stephen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}