Egypt sent aid shipments to Juba as part of its efforts to support the implementation of the 2018 peace agreement in South Sudan, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday.

Three shipments of aid, including medicine, tents and military uniforms, were sent to Juba consecutively on September 11, 12 and 13, according to the ministry.

Two more shipments of aid are said to be sent on Sunday and Monday in a bid to support the establishment of South Sudanese forces' cantonment camps and rehabilitate the forces to work within state institutions.

On Monday, South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar, who signed a peace deal to the civil in 2018, agreed to speed up screening and registration of their forces that will form the unified 83,000 force to provide security in the country.

After a meeting in Juba, the two leaders said they have chosen the path of peace and are confident that the signatories to the revitalized peace agreement could agree on most outstanding issues, such as security arrangements and number of states before forming a unity government in November.

Under the new peace deal signed on September 2018, opposition leader Machar with four others will once again be reinstated as Kiir's deputy.

A peace deal signed in August 2015 collapsed following renewed violence in the capital Juba in July 2016.