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South Sudan’s president warns against clinging to power after call to postpone elections
JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Wednesday warned lawmakers «not to cling to power» just weeks after his former rival turned deputy proposed a postponement of elections expected to be held in December.
Kiir said an extension of the period of transition to elections would deny citizens an opportunity to choose their leaders and urged parliament to pass the necessary laws to pave the way for the elections.
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The president was addressing lawmakers as parliament returned from recess Wednesday.
South Sudan was supposed to hold elections before February 2023 but that timetable was pushed back last August to December 2024.
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir arrives at Jubas Presidential Palace, South Sudan, Friday, Feb. 3, 2023. South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir on Wednesday, April 3, 2024 warned leaders «not to cling to power» just weeks after his former rival-turned-deputy proposed a postponement of elections expected to be held in December. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
Parliament Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba said lawmakers would redouble their efforts to ensure that all the prerequisites for elections are met.
Vice President Riek Machar, whose forces fought in a five-year civil war that ended in a 2018 peace deal, suggested last month an extension of the transitional government’s term to allow for adequate preparation for the elections.
The landlocked country is facing an economic crisis due to a decline in oil exports after war-torn Sudan last month declared force majeure on oil shipments passing through the country. The fighting in Sudan has affected shipments destined for a terminal near Port Sudan along the Red Sea coast.
Civil servants and security forces in South Sudan have not been paid for the last six months due to the economic crisis.
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South Sudan is working to put into place a permanent constitution, an electoral commission and a unified police force, made up of pro-government and rebel factions, that would provide security to the troubled nation.
Communal violence has continued in parts of South Sudan. The United Nations, while extending a peacekeeping mission in the country, has demanded an end to the violence and pushed for swift progress by the government to ensure that delayed elections are held peacefully and freely in December.
- Ugandan officials confirmed an Ebola outbreak in the east African country’s capital, Kampala, last week.
- One nurse died on Jan. 29, and Ugandan authorities have confirmed two other Ebola cases as of the announcement of the outbreak.
- The World Health Organization director for Africa said Uganda has started a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola, for which there is currently no approved vaccine.
Uganda has begun a trial vaccination program for the strain of Ebola viral infection that is behind the country’s latest outbreak, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), while the number of confirmed cases has risen to three.
Last week, the east African country announced an outbreak of Ebola in the capital, Kampala, with a single case, a nurse who died on Jan. 29.
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The total number of cases has now risen to three, with the two additional cases from the family of the deceased man, Ministry of Health spokesperson Emmanuel Ainebyoona told Reuters late on Monday.
In a post on the X platform late on Monday, Matshidiso Moeti, WHO director for Africa, said Uganda had also started a clinical trial of a vaccine against the Sudan strain of Ebola.
A Ugandan doctor attends to a patient who had tested positive during the launch of the vaccination for the Sudan strain of the Ebola virus at the Mulago Guest House isolation center in Kampala, Uganda, on February 3, 2025. (Reuters/Abubaker Lubowa)
Currently, there is no approved vaccine for that strain. The existing vaccination is for the Zaire strain, which is behind a recent outbreak in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
«This marks a major milestone in public health emergency response and demonstrates the power of collaboration for global health security,» Moeti said. «If proven effective, the vaccine will further strengthen measures to protect communities from future outbreaks.»
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Bruce Kirenga, who heads Makerere Lung Institute, a research organization that is doing the trial, told local media during the launch of the vaccination that it had been developed by the International Aids Vaccine Initiative (IAVI) and that the institute had received about 2,460 doses.
The health ministry last week said that the trial would target contacts of confirmed cases.
A high-fatality disease, Ebola infection symptoms include hemorrhage, headache and muscle pains. The virus is transmitted through contact with infected bodily fluids and tissue.
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