UPDATED: Energy minister arrested and released in Juba JUBA (14 Jul.) The Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition have reported that one of their cabinet ministers in South Sudan's two-month old power-sharing government was arrested from his hotel in Juba today and released shortly thereafter.
This comes two days after President Salva Kiir fired <https://radiotamazuj.org/en/article/cirino-hiteng-says-his-removal-violates-peace-deal> the deputy minister appointed by the SPLM Former Detainees, the third party to the peace agreement, and blocked the travel <http://investigations.radiotamazuj.org/south-sudans-foreign-minister-blocked-by-president-from-traveling> of Foreign Minister Deng Alor. James Gatdet Dak, spokesman for Vice President Riek Machar, told Radio France International in a phone call today that Minister of Energy and Dams Dhieu Mathok Diing Wol was surrounded by government forces who intended to arrest him. “As we were talking then I heard these people they were arresting him,” he said. In a later Facebook post just after 3:30 he said, “It is confirmed that SPLM (IO) Secretary General and Minister of Energy, Dr. Dhieu Mathok Ding Wol, has been arrested after severely beaten.” Shortly after 4:15, Dak updated again saying that Dhieu was reased but had been beaten, saying the SPLM-IO condemns the incident. Dhieu is also the secretary general of the SPLM-IO and a native of the Bahr al Ghazal region, homeland of Salva Kiir and his chief of staff Paul Malong. This incident points to tensions within the Transitional Government of National Unity. -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/southsudankob View this message at https://groups.google.com/d/msg/southsudankob/topic-id/message-id For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "South Sudan Info - The Kob" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/SouthSudanKob. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/SouthSudanKob/CAJb14or9jrmbHNEub268nXPrDX0xZX5RSoGFBRk2GRuDHW6fFw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
