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- Chief mediator for Sudan-South Sudan peace talks, former South Africa president, Thabo Mbeki (L) and Pagan Amum (R) Secretary General of the SPLM (Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement) attend a press conference following a closed-door session of talks in Juba, South Sudan on May 21, 2012 (AFP)
Name: Thabo Mbeki
Career: President of South Africa, 14 June 1999 to 21 September 21 2008.
Position: Head of the African Union High-Level Implementation Panel on Sudan (AUHIP) for Sudan and South Sudan.
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- Pagan Amum (left), chief negotiator from South Sudan, lead mediator for the African Union, Thabo Mbeki (centre) and Sudan’s head negotiator Idriss Abdu Qadir , attend African Union-led talks between Sudan and South Sudan in Addis Ababa on March 13, 2012. (Getty)
- Saturday 5 January 2013
January 5, 2013 (ADDIS ABABA/KHARTOUM) - Sudanese and South Sudanese presidents will start talks Saturday over the implementation of a security deal after separate meetings with the Ethiopian Prime Minister and the African Union chief (...)
- Sunday 29 April 2012
April 28, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudanese foreign minister, Ali Ahmed Karti, on Saturday rejected the involvement of United Nations Security Council in the resolution of outstanding issues with the South Sudan. Sudan’s FM minister Ali Ahmed (...)
- Monday 22 October 2012
October 21, 2012 (JUBA) - South Africa on Sunday pledged its resolve to support a peace proposal by the African Union High Level Implementation (AUHIP) which aims to end the long-running dispute between Sudan and South Sudan over the (...)
- Sunday 27 May 2012
May 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM) — Sudan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations filed a new complaint on Saturday accusing the South Sudan of carrying attacks on its territory in Darfur and South Kordofan and providing support to rebel (...)
- Monday 23 April 2012
April 22, 2012 (LONDON) - The African Union has called for Sudan and South Sudan to renew discussions on post-partition issues and end the conflict over its disputed oil-rich border that has derailed the AU mediated process. Chairman (...)
- Sunday 29 April 2012
April 28, 2012 (JUBA) - South Sudanese officials and senior figures of the ruling party in Juba on Saturday added to calls for the removal of Thabo Mbeki, the chair of the African Union High Implementation Panel which has been (...)
- Friday 30 March 2012
March 29, 2012 (KHARTOUM) – A number of senior United Nations (UN) officials are privately seeking to bring Sudanese president Omer Hassan al-Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir together for a summit in a third country, (...)
- Monday 12 November 2012
November 11, 2012 (JUBA) - Former South African President, Thabo Mbeki is the winner of the 2012 Daily Trust African of the Year award, its Advisory Board announced on Thursday. Pagan Amum (left), chief negotiator from South Sudan, (...)
- Thursday 27 September 2012
September 26, 2012 (KHARTOUM/JUBA) – Sudan President Omer Al-Bashir and his South Sudanese counterpart Salva Kiir Mayardit managed, after another round of marathon talks on Wednesday, to strike a deal on border security issues but (...)
- Friday 8 June 2012
June 7, 2012 (KHARTOUM)- Sudan and South Sudan delegations at the level of the Joint Political and Security Mechanism (JSPM) have ended the first round of talks after failing to endorse a map to establish a buffer zone between the two (...)
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