KHARTOUM- Sudan’s newly appointed Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok is expected to officiate a one-on-one meeting between South Sudan rival leaders, an official has said.

Agok Makur, a member of main opposition leader Dr Riek Machar’s group SPLM-IO on Monday evening said that Khartoum was planning a face-to-face talks between Machar and President Salva Kiir in Juba.

“Now there is a move from Sudanese government for the meeting between the opposition leader Riek Machar and President Salva Kiir in Juba with the supervision of the new Sudan Prime Minister who will come with Dr Machar,” Mr Makur told journalists in Juba.

Mr Makur, however, did not give a date for the meeting.

Regional bloc Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) had earlier proposed a meeting between the two leaders to resolve outstanding issues obstructing the implementation of the September 2018 peace agreement.