Ruling SPLM faction to name new acting secretary-general – spokesman 

JUBA — South Sudan’s ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) faction is in consultations to identify a new acting Secretary-General after Jemma Nunu Kumba who was the acting Secretary-General was appointed last week by President Salva Kiir Mayardit as the next speaker of the parliament.

Last week, a high-level meeting of SPLM members in the newly-reconstituted parliament endorsed the nomination of Jemma Nunu Kumba as the first female parliament speaker in South Sudan.

Kumba who was until this week the minister of parliamentary affairs is still the acting SPLM Secretary-General and the SPLM spokesman Peter Lam Both said the group is in consultation and will soon come up with a nominee for the most important party position.

“The acting secretary-general is going to be full-time in the reconstituted assembly and she will be replaced as soon as possible when the leadership of the party sets and brings new acting secretary-general,” Lam Both said, according to Eye Radio.

“So that is not a question it is a question when not if. There are consultations within the party,” he added.