According to official sources, The head of state of South Sudan has dismissed 2 senior security ministers in breach of the terms of a peace agreement with Riek Machar, first-ranking vice president, the leader of the opposing group.
In a presidential decree announced on state television late on Friday, Kiir fired the nation’s interior minister Mahmoud Solomon and the country’s defense minister Angelina Teny, who is also Machar’s wife. The President’s spokesman, Lily Martin Manyiel, confirmed this on Saturday.
They were fired, but Manyiel replied, “There is no reason I can offer you right now” and that “it’s a routine practice usually.” He also said that no choice had been made over their successors.
A peace agreement between Kiir and Machar’s soldiers was struck in 2018 and put an end to a five-year civil conflict that claimed 400,000 lives and caused Africa’s worst refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The Revitalized Peace Accord for South Sudan has been sluggish to take effect, and power-sharing disputes between the opposing factions have led to many clashes.
Pope Francis appealed to South Sudan’s warring leaders during a visit there this month to reject the violence, racial prejudice, and corruption that have prevented the world’s youngest nation from reaching peace and prosperity.