Military Reform: Agreement on the Resolution of the Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan
Implementations
Military Reform – 2015
The 2015 Agreement on the Resolution of Conflict in the Republic of South Sudan (ARCSS) required the establishment of a Unified Command to be started immediately and completed within eighteen months.
No developments observed in this year.
Military Reform – 2016
On August 17, Vice President Taban Deng Gai pledged that government and opposition troops would be unified before the end of May, 2017.[1] On August 20, over 6,000 SPLM/A-IO soldiers joined the government army.[2]
[1] “South Sudan says rival forces will be merged by May 2017,” Xinhua General News Service, August 17, 2016.
[2] “Over 6000 South Sudan rebel fighters defect to government army,” BBC Monitoring Africa, August 22, 2016.