President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka to attend peace talks between South Sudan's Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar in Uganda.
Kalonzo joined Uganda’s head of state Yoweri Museveni and the two leaders in the talks for the formation of a coalition government.
The meeting between the two leaders comes less than a week to the expiry of the November 12 deadline.
The leaders held a closed-door meeting to deliberate on the matter as efforts to bring back in South Sudan continue.
The civil war in the nation has left close to 400,000 people dead. Human rights activists and other lobby groups have mounted pressure on the two leaders to find a long-lasting solution before the crisis persists. Machar's party the SPLM-IO spokesperson, Manawa Peter Gatkuot has confirmed the existence of the meeting.
"The two will have a closed-door meeting at the presidential palace today," he said, as quoted by Daily Nation.
The rival leaders have not come to a consensus despite meeting in September in Juba. Both have maintained a hardline stance on the leadership of the nation even as the crisis escalates.
Machar wants Kiir to assure him of personal security before returning to South Sudan.