South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir, has given a blanket amnesty to rebels, including his rival Riek Machar.
The announcement comes days after the government and rebel groups signed a power-sharing deal in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, aimed at ending , nearly five-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands and forced millions from their homes.
A presidential decree, read out on state TV, said South Sudan’s warring parties have also signed security arrangement deals as part of an ongoing peace process, mediated and brokered by the regional bloc IGAD.