Former Prime Minister and ODM party leader Raila Odinga, on Friday met with South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar who has been under house arrest in Pretoria, South Africa.
Odinga is leading peace talks between South Sudan President Salva Kiir and Dr Machar aimed at making the leaders who were friends but turned political enemies, work together for stability in the S.Sudan.
He was accompanied by Minority Chief Whip Junet Mohammed and Lawyer Paul Mwangi.
The meeting comes weeks after Odinga held similar talks with Kiir on Thursday, May 24.
Odinga, an opposition leader who changed tune and teamed up to work with his political nemesis President Uhuru Kenyatta, held discussions with President Salva Kirr Miyardit at State House in Juba.
IGAD said talks in Ethiopia to revive South Sudan’s failed 2015 peace pact and end the country’s civil war broke up on Wednesday without a deal, prolonging a conflict that has killed thousands of people and displaced millions.
IGAD has been helping to mediate and get South Sudan’s warring parties to agree again on power sharing and security arrangements, crucial steps for recommitting to the 2015 agreement and ending the war in Africa's youngest country which attained independence in December 2011.
In a statement IGAD said the talks ended on Wednesday after “several attempts to narrow the gaps between the positions of the parties” proved fruitless.
Accompanied by Suna East MP Junet Mohammed and Lawyer Paul Mwangi, Odinga held peace and stability-related discussions with Kiir.
South Sudan plunged into war in December 2013, barely two years after independence from Sudan, after a disagreement between President Kiir and his former Deputy Riek Machar deteriorated into a military confrontation.
Thousands have been killed by the fighting between troops loyal to Kiir and forces loyal to Machar. The conflict has also left a quarter of the country’s population of 12 million either internally displaced or as refugees in neighbouring countries.