THE African Union summit in Rwanda resolved to “separate and disarm” rival government factions in South Sudan, South African President Jacob Zuma said yesterday.

Speaking on his return from the summit in Kigali that ended on Monday, Mr Zuma said a meeting of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development — the regional trade bloc that comprises eight countries from the Horn of Africa, the Nile Valley and the Great Lakes — had called for the warring parties to be disarmed — without specifying how.

The two-year civil war between Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) led by President Salva Kiir and SPLM-in-Opposition led by Vice-President Riek Machar flared up again two weeks ago in the capital Juba.