South Sudan's troubled agreement is not keeping the peace
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JUBA- When South Sudan's president signed a peace deal a year ago to try to end the country's civil war, he added 16 reservations to the agreement.
Salva Kiir called it "the most divisive and unprecedented peace deal" in African history and said he only signed it because of "many messages of intimidations and threats" from the international community. He complained about the power given to opposition leader Riek Machar as First Vice President, the placement of rebel forces in the capital of Juba, and the authority given to monitors of the peace deal.
Kiir's reservations were swiftly rejected by the U.S. government, which led the charge for the peace agreement, according to diplomats in Juba.
