IGAD special envoy Wais Ismail (C) chairs a meeting with the South Sudanese parties on 2 Sept 2018 (Photo Nuur Mohamud Sheekh)
February 8, 2019 (JUBA) - Three holdout opposition groups announced on Friday the establishment of a new alliance group calling for three autonomous governments in Bhar El Ghazal, Upper Nile and Equatoria.

The National Alliance for Democracy And Freedom Action (NADAFA) is founded by the People’s Democratic Movement, the Workers Party of Upper Nile, and Federal Democratic Party/Army. Also, the three groups said the umbrella is open to "others who will join them".

The three groups which call to review the revitalized peace agreement vowed to form a transitional government that "will be based on a federation of three autonomous regions during a transitional period".

They also pledged to work for a new "Social Contract and Constitution-making for a people’s choice of a governance system for their country between Federation or Confederation of states, including determination of the number of states during the transitional period".

The founding members, also, called on peace mediators and facilitators including IGAD, African Union and Troika countries as well as the UN Security Council to revisit the revitalized peace deal "to incorporate provisions for Pre-Transitional People’s conventions in Upper Nile, Equatoria and Bahr al Ghazal before to start of Transitional Period".

They further stressed that the review should also "address the root causes of conflict, justice and accountability for war crimes, and crimes against humanity and gross human rights violations in South Sudan".

The IGAD Special Envoy to South Sudan who is also the peace mediator, met with the holdout groups last December.

Last Monday, the head of the South Sudan ceasefire monitoring mechanism urged the IGAD mediator to bring the non-signatory groups to the negotiating table, as the rebel groups continue to clash with the government.

(ST)

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9 February 2019 13:09, by Eastern

Kiir and his sycophants don’t listen to any other voice than their own. NADAFA would be wasting its valuable ideas and time. Museveni is already providing Kiir military support to fight those opposed to the regime in Juba; this military support includes but not limited to the use of LAND MINES & CLUSTER BOMBS from the stockpile in Luweero arm facility in central Uganda....
- 10 February 2019 01:14, by Pakuai
  
  Eastern,
  And what planet or rock do those so-called oppositions living on or under chap? Where were those oppositions when Mr. Omar El Bashir unilaterally create the then 10 states of South Sudan? Again, who created the so-called three regions of Upper Nile, Bhar El Gazelles and Ewuatoria? Some criminals behind SUDAN TRIBUNE propaganda machines are so embolden that they think every South Sudanese who read or comment on their propaganda trashes are their fools. Good luck with that fellows. Mr. Riek machar even suggested in the hotels and bars of Adis Ababa that South Sudan should have 21 states on the so-called British 21 districts>>>
  - 10 February 2019 01:31, by Pakuai
    
    I also heard that Mr. Riek Machar are obsessed and his foreign sponsors from the UK, the US, their evil juus (so-called israeli) attack dogs and gulf Arab states financiers and their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan are so obsessed with these numbers combination: 3, 4, 7, 21, 28 & 40 and Friday as their day of evil intent to execute their evils deeds of destruction. Oh well, we have we have long since found Mr. Riek Machar and his foreign masters dirty intrigues. This is the same Riek Machar, Lam Akol and others who betrayed the South Sudanese genuine cause, joined our arch enemy, did it again in 2013 and 2016 and now they are right back in Khartoum and will come back>>>
    - 10 February 2019 01:43, by Pakuai
      
      And flash out their evil smiles at the South Sudanese people without shame and to have been working for the independence and interests of South Sudan and the South Sudanese people. South Sudanese have been fighting for ages to rid ourselves with our cloned so-called arab our ancestors wrongly welcomed into our country and yet the traitors like Riek Machar, Lam Akol and their other bunch of fake PhD doctors games is alwayd to pull our country & our people to the people we hate to death. Not only this, they even also want to bring the evil white Americans, English people, their evil juus (so-called Israelis), the UN and NGOs into our country?>>>>
      - 10 February 2019 01:59, by Pakuai
        
        Mr. Riek Machar and his disciples will "return back to South Sudan in May, after transitional period (when his and his disciples paths) have been arranged" *But for Messiah and his disciples to come and take their seats and rule South Sudan and the South Sudanese people!! Here we go! A mi the only South Sudanese who is reading too much about Mr. Riek Machar, Barack Obama, their evil juus (so-called israelis) and their gulf Arab states, English people and some white Americans false messianic intrigues Or what? No wonder the US, the UK, their UN, their NGOs and some their creepy allies in between that covet our country are after Riek Machar, Lam Akol, Pagan Amuom or Thomas Cirillo!>>>
        
        10 February 2019 02:11, by Pakuai
        
        Because these are the traitors, thieves and foreign puppets who sold themselves and their souls to the devils/evils and they also want to our country and our people to the devils also? Really, what do the losers really think they are to South Sudan? Mr. Pagan Amuom took Mr. Barack Hussein Obama’s then white house fulltime residency and he thought Barack Obama and his then US states department would come and installed them into power in South Sudan by force?? Mr. Barack Obama even came to Kenya and Adis Ababa, ethiopia;>>>
        
        10 February 2019 02:20, by Pakuai
        
        And pick some leaders of Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Somalia, Djibouti, Chad, Nigeria and foreign minister of North Sudan because the Western world emporer didn’t want to be seen greeting Mr. Omar Hassan El Bashir. Mr. Barack Hussein Obama then lectured his chosen African foolish leaders about South Sudan and South Sudanese people without South Sudanese leaders? Can South Sudanese with brains now spot the ’dirty intrigues and conspiracy’ being played over our country and over our people by the evils we often called allies or uncles!!!>>>
        
        10 February 2019 02:33, by Pakuai
        
        Mr. Barack Hussein Obama and his bunch of evil juus (so-called israelis) in his then US states department even campaigned rigorously behind the scenes that South Sudan should be ruled by the UN and NGOs for 31 years and our country would then be returned to us after it has been plundered dry. That is the foolish idea of "South Sudan’s trusteeship by the UN, NGOs, African UN and IGAD" originated from fellows. The so-called UN NEW WORLD ORDER government EXPERIMENT to be started here South Sudan>>>
        
        10 February 2019 02:47, by Pakuai
        
        Fellows, as l have posted a number of times here on Sudan Tribune and other onlines. That from Jerusalem, there will span the evil juus (so-called israelis) to Euphrates, Tigris and up to our Nilotic valleys and plains. And that this juus (so-called israelis) would be financed by the gulf Arab states, evil juus bankers in Wall street, rich European, Indians, Asians, Africans and all who have stashed away their loots in offshore accounts in Nairobi, Adis Ababa, Journesberg, UAE, London, Switzerland, Virgin Islands, Bahamas, Panama, Cayman island etc. And that juus and their allies NEW WORLD ORDER UN government would be ran by the UN and the NGOs>>>>
        
        10 February 2019 02:59, by Pakuai
        
        Indians, Pakistani, Bangaledeshi, Nepalese, Sri Lankan, Rwandan, Kenyan, Abesha (so-called ethiopian), Ghanaian, Mongolian, British and other countries troops and police would deployed to protect the South Sudanese people?!! And that the juss and their allies NEW WORLD ORDER government WOULD BE HERALDED in their so-called MOST POWERFUL SOVEREIGNS of the US, the UK, France and Mr. Benjamin Nyatahu’s itself. Good luck to the evils with their cheap and dirty intrigues>>>
        
        10 February 2019 03:11, by Pakuai
        
        The evils are going to be bombed to near oblivion with their dirty schemes against other people and their countries. Fellows, the evil white Americans, English people, their cloned so-called Arabs of North Sudan, their gulf Arab states financiers and some of creeps even here in our own region love affair with our country and our people has gone too far and the evils are going to be shown their right place out of our country and over our people once and for all. We have been informing the evils all along that SOUTH SUDAN is not part of their damned evil ANGLO-AMERICA empire, never has and will never ever will and South Sudanese people are not and will never will their damned evil ANGLO-AMERICA empire subjects or slaves>>>
        
        10 February 2019 04:11, by Pakuai
        
        Mr. Eastern, jubaone and other bunch of our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan trolls. We are ahead of you idiots. Our bunch of traitors and foreign puppets/stooges have always pull South Sudan marched ahead. But now the negotiations of South Sudan and South Sudanese small isuess were kept in bars, hotels, brothels of Adis Ababa; away from South Sudanese people by the US, the UK, their UN, NGOs and some their allies. Even South Sudanese people wanted the negotiations inside South Sudan. But the fools with foreign masters didn’t. The US, the UK, their UN, their NGOs and alliies were the ones negotiating themselves into our country and unto our people>>>
        
        10 February 2019 04:25, by Pakuai
        
        And the then so-called ARCISS was nothing to do with the South Sudanese people peace, it was something to do with the countries l mentioned above to take over our country and redflag was raised, but the evils with interests over our country and our ignored our warning however, and forced their rubbish into the government of South Sudan and the South Sudanese people and hoped their bullish would come and be implemented. Something that came and explode in the evil faces on 7/07/2016 at J1 complex. The are some evils around the world who just like other people and their countries like they are their friends on face book, even when you don’t like them back. There are some evils in the US, the UK, their UN, their NGOs, their cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan, their evil juus (so-called israelis) and some their allies in between who like our country and our people>>>
        
        10 February 2019 04:34, by Pakuai
        
        This is not because these evils really like our country and our people, they are just after our resources, land, our Nile waters and of course to Geopolitically chess game or football play our country and our people like their then DR Eastern Congo, Angola, Mozambique and now again in DR Congo, Central Africa republic (CAR), Libya, North Sudan, Zimbabwe, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Venezuela or Nicaragua and some other countries>>>>
        
        10 February 2019 04:48, by Pakuai
        
        Central Africa republic (CAR), Libya and Mali have already rolled over and have been taken and their resources have been secured by the US, the UK, France, their evil juus (so-called israelis), their gulf Arab states paymasters. Can any South Sudanese recalled two days ago, Central Africa republic (CAR) went and signed their peace in Khartoum?!! Fellows, as l have stated time and time again, the evil juus (so-called israelis) often "deport a lot Africans infiltrators" back to Uganda and Rwanda and advised to come to South Sudan, the evil juus (so-called israelis) ’Terra nillus (a country without people) in. My lowly informed South Sudanese fools>>>>
        
        10 February 2019 05:09, by Pakuai
        
        I explained this story a number of times, the devil infested Island of England used what is called "Opium war" with allies from her then British India corporation to ship their Opium drugs to Cantonese Chinese with exchange of Silver coins, until the Chinese became addicted to heroin. And asked the English Merchants to get the hell out with their heroin. The Chinese people were bullied to submission. The Chinese people took back their Hong Kong Leland in 1997. And the English merchants are screaming like babies to welcomed back to Hong Kong, but the Chinese people don’t want to hear the vermin>>>
        
        10 February 2019 05:22, by Pakuai
        
        For those South Sudanese who used to hear this slogan "one country, two systems" during our peace negotiations with our cloned so-called arab of North Sudan in ’Machakos, Nairobi and Naivasha" in 1999-2005. That South Sudan must remains "one Sudan and two systems" like what the evils experimented in Hong Kong. But Dr, John Garang negotiated a peace that was acceptable to South Sudanese people. The evils in the US, the UK and their allies killed Dr, John Garang a month later on his way from Uganda to his New Kush resident thorough their AFRICOM and their evil juus (israelis) Mossad and the evils thought they can accused Mr. Yoweri Museveni to have killed Dr. John Garang>>>
        
        10 February 2019 05:33, by Pakuai
        
        We have have been informing most our South Sudanese losers and fools to embraced our peace and settled a bit because we are going to bomb our enemies out of our country and over people, reasons, pure HATRED and RACISM. That our country and people and our people would be played around and then our country and people would be re-united with our cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan. Like their then East and West Germany and the evils would then run to their capitals that their so-called Capitalism has prevails over their so-called Communism and socialism. Fellows, Queen Elizabeth is dead long time ago and the evils in the US, the UK, their gulf Arab states paymasters>>>
        
        10 February 2019 05:46, by Pakuai
        
        And some of their creepy allies in between think they can use their evil monarchy intrigues the evils "used during their so-called Queen Victoria bullsh*t" That "the country that control the Nile valley and plains control Africa" That *Indian, Pakistanis, Bangaledeshis, Nepalese, Sri Lankans and other mercenaries would be resettled here into our country to build "railway from Kenya and Uganda to South Sudan" and then there would be Indians. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, Sri Lankans and others like their then Uganda, today’s Kenya, Rwanda, South Africa, Malawi, Zambia, Mozambique, South Africa, Namibia, the UK, the UK or the Caribbeans>>>>
        
        10 February 2019 05:59, by Pakuai
        
        How many Africans of South Sudanese decents are living india, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepalese or Sri Lanka? Not that l know off. Africans are even called "coloured people in those countries" worse still, a lot South Sudanese were sent and study in India through. And Indians are poorest people on earth than even here in Africa. Ida Amin Dada, chase out these vermin with their English masters and we are going to the same thing here in South Sudan. Mr. Ida Amin Dada even went and fought as a mercenary on behave of devil infested Island England in Korean war and that why he became enraged and kicked out the Indians creeps and English masters>>>
        
        10 February 2019 06:24, by Pakuai
        
        Fellows, Mr. Winston Churchill criminal even suggested that the evil juus (so-called israelis) should have been "resettled in Uganda" the evils would have been dead. The evils are going to be bombed to near oblivion. The evils will not even *REACH POLAND OR NEW YORK* The evils even called SOUTH SUDANESE people their ’energy’. I don’t know whether their god tells them or some that they imagine. The Dinkas/Monjiengs of the Sudan don’t consider the evil white Americans, English people, their evil juus (so-called israelis, the cloned so-called arabs of North Sudan>>>
        
        10 February 2019 09:34, by Eastern
        
        Pakuai,
        
        You can rant, I wish you had a version in Thw?ja?? for all and sundry to comprehend, for those jenge who can read anyway.....!
10 February 2019 15:20, by Don-Don Malith Rual

"Opposition groups set up new alliance for three regions in South Sudan" That’s a very big joke, Junubin with the formation of association! What does Party constitution says? And how long have you been in the re-union of SPLM party? Was this your intention of joining in as you leave a french leave last time? We should watch your move very closely with an open eyes, if this is what you are coming f

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