IGAD chief mediator Seyoum Mesfin has called upon the warring parties to quickly reach a peace agreement.

Mr Mesfin says the suffering South Sudan is undergoing due to the conflict is affecting the whole region.

He made the remark during a presentation of a proposed agreement to the mediators of IGAD Plus. These include five African Countries, the UN and the African Union in addition to the IGAD mediators.

The United States, Britain and Norway, jointly known as the Troika, are also members of IGAD Plus. He urges the warring parties to make compromises to agree on a lasting peace deal.

“When you have a sick member in the family, obviously the whole family gets worried and feels the pain also,” Mr Mesfin said.

“It may not be as the pain felt by the sick person but definitely you share that pain. So we all of us share the pain that the people of South Sudan are passing through.”

Mr Mesfin says the discussions on the proposal have been postponed to tomorrow. The document proposes a government of nationality unity during the transitional period.

In power sharing at the national level, the government would take 53 percent, 33 for the SPLM in Opposition and 14 for the former political detainees and other political parties.

In the Upper Nile region, the government would take 33 percent, 53 for the SPLM in Opposition and the rest for former political detainees and other political parties.

However, many members of the group have returned to Juba.