By RFIPubliée on 19-10-2019Modified on 19-10-2019 at 22:10

Riek Machar is temporarily back in Juba. Arrived this Saturday, October 19 in South Sudan, the rebel leader met for the second time since September, President Salva Kiir. The visit should be used to find a solution for his final return scheduled November 12, the day he must take his post as 1st vice-president before the formation of a government of national unity.

Riek Machar's camp threatens not to participate if some problems are not resolved before. Time is running out . There is less than a month left to address two critical issues. For the rebel leader's side, there will be no unity government if the security issue is not resolved first.

US threatens sanctions

The conditions for protecting the opposition in Juba must be defined. However, some experts urge the rebel leader not to return with armed men in the capital. On his last return in 2016 , clashes with Salva Kiir's soldiers had revived the war. Then a national army of 83,000 men must be formed. But according to the commission of application of the agreement, half of this new force was not even ready at the end of September.

The second pitfall concerns federal states and their borders. From 10 to the original, Salva Kiir has passed them to 32. He is suspected of having made this decision to benefit his ethnicity, the Dinkas. " If this question is not settled, I do not see how a union government could be formed, " said researcher Alan Boswell.

A delegation of the Council of Ministers of the Intergovernmental Authority for Development (Igad) arrived this Friday before representatives of the Security Council of the UN this Sunday. The international community is pushing to bring the points of view closer together. The United States even threatens the sanctions regime if the date of the 12th is not respected. It's a dangerous strategy according to Alan Boswell. " This country is not a sandbox. The Americans want to coerce the parties by force. We saw what it gave in 2016, "says the researcher.

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