In a bid to give peace a chance after two years of war, South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, has reappointed his bitter rival, Riek Machar as Vice-President.
The civil conflict in the country erupted in December 2013 after Mr Kiir accused Mr Machar of plotting a coup.
Since then, thousands had died and more than two million people had been displaced.
Mr Machar told the BBC that Mr Kiir wasn’t doing him a favour by making him the vice president, but that instead he was just following a peace agreement they made in August.
“We had worked before together in the liberation of South Sudan, although we had differences. We will work together and make South Sudan independent for eight years. we will see how things go,” he said.
South Sudan is the world’s youngest country and one of the least developed. It splits from the North (Sudan) in 2011.
Amid a threat of sanctions from the UN, the two sides signed a peace deal in August last year.
Last month’s confidential report by a U.N. panel that monitors the conflict in South Sudan for the Security Council stated that Kiir and Machar were still completely in charge of their forces and were therefore, directly to blame for killing civilians and other actions that warrant sanctions.
According to the report, those violations include: extrajudicial killings, torture, sexual violence, extrajudicial arrest and detention, abductions, forced displacement, the use and recruitment of children, beatings, looting and the destruction of livelihoods and homes.
The report described how Kiir’s government bought at least four Mi-24 attack helicopters in 2014 from a private Ukrainian company at a cost of nearly $43 million.
It added that Machar’s forces were trying to “acquire shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles to counter the threat of attack helicopters, specifically citing the need to continue and indeed escalate the fighting”.
