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[image: JPEG - 74.6 kb]*Arms and light weapons have been used by both warring parties in South Sudan to commit abuses (Photo courtesy of SSANSA)* “This move represents another marker in the South Sudan’s slow motion political suicide,” said Enough Project’s Founding Director, John Prendergast. “It unnecessarily brings South Sudan a step closer to full-scale war, shutting another door to dialogue and trampling on democratic processes espoused by both South Sudan’s government and opposition SPLA-IO [Sudan People Liberation Army in Opposition],” he added. A section of South Sudan’s former rebels on Sunday announced they had replaced Machar with Gai, who was the mining minister in the recently established transitional national unity government. Gai was the rebel’s lead negotiator for a peace accord signed last year between Machar, President Kiir, religious groups as well as several other political groups, to end nearly two years of violence. The deal created a transitional government to last for 30 months in which Kiir was to remain President and Machar as first vice president. But Machar’s allies say the move to substitute him with Gai, was illegal since he had already defected to President Kiir-led faction. Brian Adeba, an Associate Director of Policy at the Enough Project said if President Kiir’s action to remove the former rebel leader and replace him with Deng proves to be part of an elite pact without grassroots support, it could undermine the peace accord. “It is imperative that South Sudan’s leaders adhere to implementing the peace agreement and not allow inner-circle power plays to bring forth more violence and destabilisation,” he observed. During the formation of the transitional government in late April, both Kiir and Machar agreed to implement the peace deal, which halted nearly two years of a bloody civil which took an ethnic dimension. Both rival factions, according to the peace agreement, were to retain control of their respective armies until a merge is concluded. Machar fled the capital, Juba when his forces clashed with those loyal to Kiir, killing over 270 soldiers and displacing 40,000 civilians. The former rebel leader instead asked for a buffer between his forces and those loyal to Kiir as an assurance of his security in the capital. Last week, President Kiir gave Machar a 48-hour ultimatum to return to Juba to continue as First Vice President or risk being replaced. Machar failed to comply and a group of SPLM-IO officials including Gai, Secretary-General Dhieu Diing and Deputy Chairman Alfred Gore met in Juba and nominated Gai as Machar’s replacement. Machar said Friday that he had fired Gai as mining minister, removed him from the SPLM-IO Political Bureau and withdrew his chairmanship of National Committee on Reconciliation and Healing. “This is to declare to all members of the SPLM/SPLA (IO) that Taban Deng Gai has defected to the SPLM-IG (in Government) under President Salva Kiir Mayardit,” Machar wrote to SPLM-IO members. “By this, Taban Deng Gai is dismissed and no more a member of the SPLM/SPLA (IO),” adds the letter. The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), a body charged with supervising the implementation of the peace agreement, said changes within the Machar-led opposition movement depends on the leadership of the movement itself. “A change to the leadership depends on the Opposition itself and we are not here to speculate on such changes,” JMEC said Sunday. “We do not see any value in speculating when the people and friends of South Sudan are working hard to ensure a return to the implementation of the Peace Agreement,” it added. According South Sudan’s peace agreement, each of the parties to the accord can either nominate or withdraw its respective minister. (ST) Comments on the Sudan Tribune website must abide by the following rules. 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If you want to express yourself in more detail than this allows, please e-mail your comment as an article to [email protected] Kind regards, The Sudan Tribune editorial team. <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article59723#forum> - 26 July 00:20, by Panda Odhie If you prophets predict what will happened, that will automatically shows Riek is fighting for the seat of FVP and it will not be tolerate repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=59723&id_forum=351151> - 26 July 05:45, by Shadrack Nuer Machut ’...will iginite full scale of war.’ This’ just a word fro annoyed Dr. Riek’s supporter. Let Taban try unifying our tribally polarized society. Riek is after all means possible to make him the president without anticipitating consequences. His presence is none other than just a war whether FVP or dismissed. Therefore it’s better his war than him being in the govt. repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=59723&id_forum=351155> - 26 July 00:27, by Akol Liai Mager Nonsense, the Self-Proclaimed Advocacy Group should know that South Sudan is an Independence State and must not be ruled in the Bush. How can you have FVP of a Nation hiding in the Bush for no good reason and the Group expects President not to fill the Vacuum? I would have advised Kiir Mayardit since July 2013 to appoint Taban Deng Gai as Speaker of NLA where all this sagas would have been averted repondre message <http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?page=forum&id_article=59723&id_forum=351152> - 26 July 04:53, by Force 1 This is typical James Gatdet loads of cow-dungs; let him continue to fool his own Nuer on his Facebook page; but not here on Sudan Tribune. It look like he is starting to realize that Riek Machar is no longer here and will never be anywhere in this universe; maybe in hell which is his rightful destination. -- 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. 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