The leader of the South Sudan Liberation Front, Major General Joseph Lagu, met reporters in Nairobi on Thursday (April 6) to discuss last month's agreement in Addis Ababa which ended the 16-year-old civil war between North and South Sudan.

The agreement, ratified by General Lagu and Sudanese Foreign Minister Mansour Khalid, gives the African South measure of political autonomy from the Arab north.

Since ratification of the accord, General Lagu has met exiled southern Sudanese in Uganda, Ethiopia, and Kenya before returning for consultations with his followers inside sudan.

SYNOPSIS: On tour in Nairobi on Thursday, the southern Sudanese leader, Major General Joseph Lagu, met newsmen to discuss the agreement ending the 16-year-old Sudanese Civil War. Under the term of the accord, ratified last month in Addis Ababa, the African south Sudan is to get more political autonomy from the Arab north.