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South Sudan Cease-Fire Is Signed, but ‘Difficult’ Period Awaits

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December 21, 2017
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A camp for people displaced by the war in South Sudan. The warring sides signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday. Credit Tyler Hicks/The New York Times

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — South Sudan’s warring factions on Thursday signed a new agreement to cease hostilities and protect civilians in the latest effort to calm a devastating civil war.

The two sides also signed an agreement to grant humanitarian access to conflict-affected areas after days of talks in neighboring Ethiopia brokered by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development regional bloc.

The cease-fire is set to begin Sunday morning.

South Sudan is entering the fifth year of a civil war that has killed tens of thousands of people. Parts of the East African country, the world’s youngest nation, are on the brink of famine, and well over a million people have fled abroad, creating the world’s fastest-growing refugee crisis.

Past attempts at peace deals have failed, but South Sudan’s government is under pressure to find an end to the war as the United States and others have threatened further sanctions.

Ethiopia’s foreign minister, Workneh Gebeyehu, called the deal a “most precious gift” during the signing ceremony. “But as past experience has showed,” he added, “implementation is the longer and more difficult aspect.”

President Salva Kiir of South Sudan was not present at the signing. The government’s lead delegate to the talks, the cabinet affairs minister, Martin Elias Lomoro, told The Associated Press that the rebel leader Riek Machar did not take part because he was not deemed helpful.

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