South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed army commander Marial Chanuong Yol and Finance minister Stephen Dhieu Dau.
Kiir fired them without giving reasons. Yol, nicknamed Tiger,
was the commander of the presidential guard, before he was appointed
the army chief of operations, training and intelligence last year. He
was blacklisted by the UN Security Council in 2015 for alleged war
crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the onset of war in
December 2013 against members of the the Nuer ethnic group.
Dau was appointed Finance minister in 2016, with the hope of
improving South Sudan’s straining economy. However, the economy of the
young nation has never been stable, especially since the 2015
devaluation of the South Sudanese Pound (SSP).
Former technical advisor at the Ministry of Trade Salvatore Garang Mabiordit,
was named the new Finance minister. South Sudan attained independence
in 2011 following a referendum whose outcome favoured the separation
from Sudan with a 98 per cent approval. However, it soon descended into
another round of conflict pitting President Kiir’s loyalists and those
allied to his former deputy Riek Machar.
The current phase of the South Sudan war has claimed more than
100,000 lives, according to the International Crisis Group. Over 2
million South Sudanese have become refugees in neighbouring countries
and another 1.9 million others remain internally displaced, according to
the UN. The war has also caused one of the world’s worst humanitarian
crises after the Rwanda 1994 genocide, the UN added. Multiple human
rights abuses have also been documented by various group
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