{UAH} MUSEVENI CLASHED WITH IGAD CHAIRMAN AND STORMED OUT

The Turkish news agency Anadolu attributed the departure of president Museveni from the venue of peace talks on Monday to exchange of words between the Ugandan leader and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Haile Mariam Desalegn which probably resulted to the decision by president Museveni to leave Addis Ababa while the final peace agreement was being worked out by the two parties and the IGAD Plus mediation.

The Ethiopian premier and chairman of the regional body, IGAD, reportedly told president Museveni that Uganda's support to president Kiir was complicating their efforts to persuade the South Sudanese president to sign the peace agreement, a comment that angered the Ugandan leader and stormed out to the airport and returned to his country.

"If I am your problem then I will leave," Museveni reportedly told the Ethiopian leader before leaving the room and going to the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa.

President Kiir afterwards also said he would not sign the agreement despite optimism from even the rebel leader, Riek Machar that earlier signs indicated that both top rival leaders were going to sign the deal per earlier interaction between the two during the day.

After signing the agreement, rebel chief, Machar, revealed to reporters that he did not expect that president Kiir would change his mind at the last minute.

"We had hoped president Kiir was going to sign. I didn't know he wasn't going to sign because when I came to the room I met him here and greeted him before we sign but then after 10 minutes I was told he [president Kiir] wasn't signing" he told reporters in a press conference he later held on Monday evening in Addis Ababa.

However, South Sudanese government's spokesperson and member of the negotiating team told journalists in a separate interview on Tuesday that his government rejected the internationally backed regional brokered peace deal because "it is a sellout deal" that did not serve the interest of the people.

"We strongly believe that such a peace cannot serve the people of South Sudan. It is a sell-out and we will not accept that," President Kiir's information minister, Michael Makuei Lueth, told reporters on Tuesday.

The government had earlier expressed its readiness to sign the draft peace proposal, hoping it was going to be based on a revised version worked out in Kampala.

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