The leader of the former rebel movement in southern Sudan returned to Khartoum on Thursday for talks with Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir on the current political crisis between the two peace partners.
Salva Kiir Mayardit, the Sudanese first vice president and the chairman of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement ( SPLM), returned to the Sudanese capital for the first time since the movement suspended its participation in the Sudanese central government a week ago.
Mayardit will hold a meeting later with al-Bashir on a series demands which the SPLM had presented to the Sudanese president as the conditions of dropping out the suspension decision.
On Wednesday, al-Bashir announced a partial reshuffle of the central government, appointing two presidential advisers, six ministers and six ministers of state, all from the SPLM.
The 14 persons will take the governmental positions assigned to the SPLM by a peace agreement signed between the Sudanese government and the movement in 2005.
Well-informed Sudanese sources said that these people will be sworn in following the meeting between al-Bashir and Mayardit in the Presidential Palace in Khartoum.
Source: Xinhua
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