Dr Riek Machar, chairman of the SPLM-IO, has arrived in Addis Ababa earlier this morning to be part of the face-to-face talks with President Salva Kiir through an IGAD-sponsored peace process to try to negotiate an end to a five-year-old civil war.
President Kiir is also expected to arrive in Addis Ababa later today. The two South Sudanese leaders will meet for the first time since a peace deal broke down in 2016.
They will both be received by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
The IGAD Summit will take place tomorrow to deliberate and decide on the outcomes of the year-long process of the High-Level Revitalization Forum (HLRF) on South Sudan.
