Mogae to brief Obama, Putin over South Sudan

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Former president, Festus Mogae is scheduled to meet the United Nations’ most powerful organ, the Security Council, over his mediation work in the South Sudan conflict, in a move expected to raise Botswana’s flag in international diplomacy.

Mogae is the chair of the South Sudan’s Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) and has been at the forefront of resolving the country’s conflict. He recently hammered out a fragile peace agreement between warring parties, which thus far seems to have ended the two-year conflict in the country.

In an address in the South Sudan capital of Juba on Tuesday, Mogae said he hoped his report to the African Union Peace and Security Council and UN Security Council will be positive.

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