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South Sudanese President Salva Kiir said that elections, previously postponed and now scheduled for next year, would go ahead as planned and that he would run for president
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir said that elections, previously postponed and now scheduled for next year, would go ahead as planned and that he would run for president.
Salva Kiir led the country to independence from Sudan in 2011. The world’s youngest country has since gone from crisis to crisis, held together only by a fragile government of national unity, created after a peace agreement between Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar. After a transition period, elections were due to be held in February 2023. But the government has so far failed to meet key clauses of the agreement between Kiir and Machar, including the drafting of a constitution.
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No other candidate has yet declared his candidacy, but his historic enemy Riek Machar will, according to observers. In August, the two leaders extended their transitional government for two years beyond the scheduled date, citing difficulties in implementing their peace agreement. South Sudan, is one of the world’s poorest countries despite significant oil reserves. Nearly 400,000 people perished during a five-year civil war until Kiir and Machar signed a peace agreement in 2018.
