Ugandan President Meets U.S. Envoy Over South Sudan Crisis

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has told the United States envoy to the UN that he is making efforts to help end fighting in neighboring South Sudan that has forced over 1.6 million people to flee the country

KAMPALA, Sept 19 (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 19th Sep, 2017 ) : Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has told the United States envoy to the UN that he is making efforts to help end fighting in neighboring South Sudan that has forced over 1.6 million people to flee the country.

Museveni, according to a State House statement issued here on Tuesday, said as a mediator, he is trying to bring together the warring factions of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) together.

"The President said there was need to unite the various factions of the SPLM and that he was mediating talks to unite the SPLM as the Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn works on the wider unity of the other parties," the State House statement said.

Museveni was meeting Ambassador Nikki Haley on the sidelines of the ongoing UN General Assembly in New York. Since fighting broke out in South Sudan in December 2013, Uganda hosts more than one million South Sudan refugees, according to figures by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The east African country says it needs more international support to be able to cater for the increasing number of refugees from South Sudan.