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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have signed a peace accord that seeks to end more than five months of fighting, as they met for the first time since the clashes began.
The agreement, signed in Ethiopia’s capital late Friday, commits the sides to “cease all hostile activities within 24 hours” and create a “transitional government of national unity,” said former Ethiopian Foreign Minister Seyoum Mesfin, who helped mediate the deal, to reporters in Addis Ababa.
Earlier peace talks led to a truce in January that failed to halt the conflict. Fighting erupted in the oil-producing nation Dec. 15 after Kiir accused his former deputy of plotting a coup, a charge Machar denies.
