Editor's Note: This is an exerpt from a guest blog post written by Enough Project Sudan and South Sudan Policy Analyst Akshaya Kumar which originally appeared on ThinkProgress.
A month ago, the two protagonists in South Sudan's civil war promised to make peace within 60 days. After six months of unabated violence, the country's president, Salva Kiir and its erstwhile vice president, Riek Machar, recommitted themselves to the terms of a May 2014 ceasefire brokered by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, (IGAD) the regional group that is leading the talks. Kiir and Machar also pledged that they would ensure that humanitarians would not be obstructed in their struggle to deliver life-saving aid to the 1.5 million people who have been displaced from their homes by violence and the 7 million at risk of starvation.
All these promises have been broken. Fighting continues in pockets around the country, and aid workers complain that they have been beaten, arrested and looted, making it almost impossible for them to reach South Sudan's civilians on the brink of famine.
Perhaps most importantly, as a part of the early June deal, Kiir and
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