{"id":43957,"date":"2014-05-07T02:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/south_sudans_rival_leaders_to_hold_direct_talks_on_friday\/"},"modified":"2014-05-07T02:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T02:30:39","slug":"south_sudans_rival_leaders_to_hold_direct_talks_on_friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43957","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan&#39;s Rival Leaders to Hold Direct Talks on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has agreed to meet face to face with former vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar on Friday, senior diplomats in Juba disclosed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cThe Ethiopian prime minister in his capacity as the chairperson of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) has notified the government of the meeting which the president had accepted to take place between him and Riek Machar,\u201d\u009d a senior diplomat told Sudan Tribune on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am told the meeting will take place [this] Friday 9 [April],\u201d\u009d added the official who requested anonymity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sudanvisiondaily.com\/details.html?rsnpid=235432\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has agreed to meet face to face with former vice-president turned rebel leader Riek Machar on Friday, senior diplomats in Juba disclosed on Monday. \u201cThe Ethiopian prime minister in his capacity as the chairperson of<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43957\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,664,202,168,144,133,151,346,34,124],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-south-sudan","category-africa","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-foreign-relations","category-history","category-politics-in-general","category-sudan","category-theology","category-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}