Former President of Botswana, Festus Mogae, has expressed his despair over South Sudan ever seeing peace. Mogae is currently the chairman of the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) for South Sudan. Quoting the Associated Press (AP), the Sudan Tribune reported on Monday that Mogae had accused both President Salva Kiir and former first vice president Dr Riek Machar of lacking the political will to work together for peace in the world’s newest country. “There is no political will to implement the peace agreement. They (Kiir and Machar) are bent on a military solution, not political solution,” said Mogae. “I am more disillusioned or less optimistic than before. I thought that common logic could persuade them to do the right thing,” said the ex-Botswana leader. Mogae’s comments followed JMEC’s declaration that it would work with the controversially-appointed first vice president Taban Deng Gai. Gai was appointed by Kiir to replace Machar, who is also the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-In Opposition (SPLM-IO), after the opposition leader first went into hiding and then fled the country claiming his life was in danger. Machar fled after clashes between government forces and his armed followers in July. He first crossed the…