Ban Ki Moon, U.N. Secretary General, has urged the South Sudan's President Silva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar, who is leading a rebellion against him, to put down arms for the sake of the people and future of South Sudan. During a meeting in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa yesterday with Ethiopia's President Haile Mariam Desalegn and the African Union Commission Nkosazana Zuma, Ban Ki Moon discussed the situation in South Sudan. He suggested that still there is room for salvaging South Sudan if the two sides put aside their marginal interests and showed courage and real leadership to offer compromise. In this regard, Ban Ki Moon also urged the presidents of both Sudan Omar Al-Basheer and Uganda Yuri Museveni to use their office to the warring parties in South Sudan to assist ending this struggle.
