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South Sudan president threatens to appoint state governors without Machar’s consent

by Sudans Post
May 8, 2020
Salva Kiir, president of South Sudan, speaks during the 66th annual United Nations General Assembly at the UN in New York, U.S., on Friday, Sept. 23, 2011. Kiir said that his nation, the world’s newest, will use its oil reserves to create an “agro-industrial powerhouse” in Africa. Photographer: Scott Eells/Bloomberg via Getty Images

JUBA – South Sudan president Salva Kiir Mayardit has threatened to appoint state governors without the consent of his main rival and peace partner, first vice president Dr. Riek Machar Teny.

Information minister Michael Makuei Lueth told Sudans Post in an exclusive interview that the president did not have to wait for a green light from the main armed opposition leader saying Kiir is obliged by the peace agreement to do so.

“You have heard the agreement by the parties. Riek Machar was in the meeting and he had agreed. So, the president is going to appoint the governors soon so that people are served. The president will not wait for consent of anyone including Riek Machar,” Makuei said.

South Sudan’s fragile government and the peace agreement that formed it are in jeopardy after the country’s president and vice president disagreed on how to share-out regional states between them, according to a report by Reuters.

The two disagree over who will run South Sudan’s states and how to integrate different fighting forces. On Thursday, Kiir’s office announced that leadership of six of the 10 states would go to Kiir’s side, three would go to Machar’s side and one would go to an alliance aligned with neither Kiir nor Machar.

“The allocation of the states … is that of the president and not a decision taken by consensus,” Machar said in a statement on Friday. “It does not take into consideration the relative prominence each party has in each of the respective states or counties.”

Calls to Kiir’s spokesman, Ateny Wek Ateny, for comment went unanswered.

Alan Boswell, a senior analyst with Brussels-based think tank International Crisis Group, said the disagreement between Kiir and Machar endangered the gains made so far toward a lasting peace.

“South Sudan’s new unity government is facing its biggest crisis yet, as negotiations broke down on how to share power in state and local governments across the country,” he said in a statement.

“Despite the attention of South Sudan’s international partners on the COVID-19 pandemic, quick action from regional leaders will be key so that this latest power squabbling doesn’t escalate.”

South Sudan’s civil war, often fought along ethnic lines, claimed an estimated 400,000 lives, triggered a famine and created Africa’s biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

Previous South Sudan peace deals have held for only a matter of months before fighting resumed.

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