Nagomoro Bridget - women representative to tumaini initiative. (Photo/Lou Nelson/Eye Radio).

The Women’s Representative to Kenya-led South Sudan peace talks has suggested a merger between 2018 revitalized peace agreement and Tumaini Initiative, adding it will be difficult to implement two separate agreements.

Nairobi peace parties are meeting before mediators on Tuesday, 28th January, to discuss the relationship between the Tumaini and the 2018 revitalized peace agreement, and power sharing.

This followed a deadlock triggered by their diverging positions on whether the initiative should produce a standalone agreement or an annex to the existing peace accord. The second phase of the talks initially expected to conclude in weeks, now drags on for about a month.

Nagomoro Bridget said two agreements cannot be fully implemented, adding that the position of the stakeholders is to merge the two agreements.

“For us women, and with the stakeholders, we are saying no two agreements can be implemented fully in a one country,” she said in an interview with Eye Radio on Tuesday.

“So, we have to integrate, we have to integrate and come with one stand, one agreement, and of course we have not exhausted the differences between Tumaini and R-ARCSS in a way that both parties have agreed to recognize, they even own now the R-ARCSS, everybody knows it.”

“We should integrate what is new from Tumaini so that we merge them together to make one agreement. Then the power sharing of course, these are the few things if we really get into business, this is what we are supposed to discuss and then narrow and compromise and come up with one agreement.”