MY TAKE ON THIS: Let us intervene in South Sudan before it is too late

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Presidents Obasanjo and Mbeki recognized that the solution to the current crisis was within the reach of the peoples of South Sudan

The African Union Commission of Inquiry on South Sudan (AUCISS) (http://www.au.int) met with President Thabo Mbeki, in his capacity as Chairperson of the High Level Implementation Panel on Sudan, today 4 September 2014. In attendance were President Olusegun Obasanjo, Professor Mahmood Mamdani and Lady Justice Sophia Akuffo.

The meeting follows nation wide...

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The UK is to devote more troops to UN peacekeeping, with a deployment to South Sudan, the BBC learns.

>The eastern African region, and indeed the African continent and the world, may soon start getting fatigued over the slow pace of peace talks on the war-torn South Sudan, according to some officials of the warring parties and mediators.

Some four million people in South Sudan are likely to face critical food shortages next month, British aid agencies warn.