Signatories to the South Sudan peace agreement are now split in the middle as President Salva Kiir has managed to pull some opposition parties to his side over the allocation of states.
In focus is President Kiir's decision to allocate Dr Riek Machar's Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) governorship of states where he has no militarily presence and people's support.
President Kiir allocated SPLM-IO Jonglei, Western Bahr El Ghazal and Western Equatoria State, forcing Dr Machar to reject the allocations.
The article also makes it clear that the prominence of Parties in each State must influence the choice of the States," said Dr Machar in his letter.
He suggested that the only way forward is to explicitly place the responsibility of allocating State and Local Government positions in the hands of the Parties and not the Presidency, as per the Article 1.16.4 of the agreement.
