In a nation still bearing the wounds of a civil war that claimed 400,000 lives, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dissolved the power-sharing government born from the 2018 peace agreement, consolidating executive authority into his own hands ahead of December elections. The architecture of compromise — built to hold rivals together through a fragile transition — has been swept away by decree and legislative revision in a single week. What remains is a caretaker government answerable to one man, a jailed opposition leader, and a legal framework that may permit the indefinite postponement o
South Sudan's Kiir dissolves government, consolidates power ahead of elections
The 2018 peace deal that this decree dissolves ended a five-year civil war that killed approximately 400,000 people and displaced millions.