{"id":3086,"date":"2014-06-23T17:01:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T10:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2014-06-23T17:01:50","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T10:01:50","slug":"south-sudan-rebels-and-government-peace-talks-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/south-sudan\/south-sudan-rebels-and-government-peace-talks-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan rebels and government peace talks halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA: Peace talks between South Sudan rebels and the government adjourned Monday with no progress made on forming an interim government or implementing a ceasefire.<\/p>\n<p>Both sides have boycotted the talks since a meeting earlier this month between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, who had previously agreed to form a transitional government and implement a ceasefire by August 10.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The talks have been adjourned from today until further notice,&#8221; the government&#8217;s chief negotiator, Michael Makuei, told AFP. &#8220;We did not make any progress.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government had temporarily pulled out after Mahboub Maalim, head of East African bloc IGAD that is brokering the talks, said that both sides were &#8220;stupid&#8221; if they thought they could resolve the conflict militarily, but returned to negotiations Friday&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"South Sudan News\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailystar.com.lb\/News\/Middle-East\/2014\/Jun-23\/261213-south-sudan-peace-talks-halt.ashx\" 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>ADDIS ABABA: Peace talks between South Sudan rebels and the government adjourned Monday with no progress made on forming an interim government or implementing a ceasefire. Both sides have boycotted the talks since a meeting earlier this month between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar, who had previously agreed to form [&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":[258,256,1509,4695,1513,1512,257,1508,555,1510,254,4700,733,1507,1511],"class_list":["post-3086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ceasefire","tag-east-africa","tag-head-of-east-african-bloc-igad","tag-mahboub-maalim","tag-news","tag-no-progress-made-on-forming-an-interim-government","tag-riek-machar","tag-salva-kiir","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan-news","tag-south-sudan-rebels","tag-transitional-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086","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=3086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3086\/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=3086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}