🇸🇸 Kiir dissolves South Sudan government ahead of 22 December elections

South Sudan President Salva Kiir has dissolved the transitional government, parliament, and national and state administrations ahead of the country’s first elections since independence in 2011. Under an amended law signed on Monday, Kiir also removed the country’s five vice-presidents, while remaining in office with full constitutional powers until an elected president is sworn in. Some ministers and governors were reappointed in caretaker roles until the 22 December vote.

The move comes after elections were postponed twice and the transitional period was repeatedly extended. Opposition party SPLM-IO, led by detained former vice-president Riek Machar, said on Thursday it would boycott the poll, while the elections commission previously said it needed $250m but had received only $21m.

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