Thursday, August 1, 2013

South Sudan Cabinet Change

Sudan President Omar al-Bashir (right) and South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit. Flickr/Al Jazeera
South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit recently fired his Vice President, Riek Machar, and the entire cabinet. Amanda Lucey, researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Pretoria, offered an analysis of the situation in a piece dated 30 July 2013 titled "Are South Sudan's Cabinet Sackings an Overdue Development Or a Recipe for Conflict?"