NAIROBI, Kenya
United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is in Kenya for a two-day official visit.
Guterres was received by Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Alfred Mutua at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi on Wednesday morning.
CS Mutua said the UN chief’s visit will be centred on the security situation in Sudan. He will meet President William Ruto and all the Heads of various UN agencies who are meeting in Nairobi this week.
Warring generals in Sudan on Tuesday agreed to a seven-day ceasefire after regional envoys denounced repeated violations of previous truces.
The government of neighbouring South Sudan said diplomatic efforts had intensified to end the war that has ravaged Africa's third-largest country for over two weeks now.
Sudan's army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy turned rival, Mohamed Hamdan Daglo, who commands the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), "have agreed in principle for a seven-day truce from May 4th to 11th," the South Sudanese foreign ministry in Juba said in a statement.
Previously, fighting still continued even after the two parties announced a truce.
According to the UN, more than 430,000 people have already been forced to flee their homes since fighting broke out on April 15, while hundreds of others have been killed and thousands wounded.
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