Sudanese First Vice President and Chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) SalvaKiir Mayardit announced on Sunday that a current political crisisin the country had ended.
"I confirm that the crisis is over," Mayardit told a press conference, noting that when Sudanese President Omer al-Bashir andhe returned from visits abroad they would issue decisions on what had been agreed between them.
Al-Bashir left Khartoum on Saturday for a visit in Burundi and South Africa, while Salva Kiir will kick off a visit in the United States later Sunday.
The former southern rebel SPLM, which signed a peace agreement with al-Bashir's government in 2005, announced on Oct. 11surprisingly a decision to suspend the participation of its ministers in the central government to protest over what it called a procrastination of the implementation of the peace deal. Source: Xinhua
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