In a nation still carrying the wounds of a civil war that claimed 400,000 lives, South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has dissolved the power-sharing government built to prevent another such catastrophe, concentrating authority in his own hands ahead of elections scheduled for December. The 2018 peace accord — painstakingly assembled to distribute power and rebuild trust — has been swept aside by decree, leaving no parliament, no cabinet, and no rival centers of authority to temper what comes next. History reminds us that the distance between an election and a consolidation of power is often mea
South Sudan's Kiir dissolves government, consolidates power before elections
The 2018 peace deal that preceded these changes ended a five-year civil war that killed approximately 400,000 people and displaced millions.