South Sudan President, Salva Kiir, has sacked the country’s foreign minister and so far no explanation has been given.
This sack is coming less than a week after the ministers of defence and interior were sacked.
However, the president has not provided an explanation for the officials that have been sacked.
The sacked foreign minister, Mayiik Ayii, is a close ally of the president.
Ayii once served as the minister of the president’s office.
It is not clear if Ayii’s sack was linked to those of the defence and interior minister, which have threatened to destroy a fragile peace deal with opposition leader First Vice President Riek Machar.
Normal Business
“It’s a normal business. People can be relieved and replaced,” president Kiir’s spokesperson Lily Martin Manyiel says.
Kiir and VP Machar’s forces signed a peace agreement in 2018.
The peace agreement ended a five-year civil war that killed 400,000 people and caused Africa’s biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Implementation of the deal, known as the Revitalised Peace Agreement for South Sudan, has been slow and the opposing forces have clashed frequently over disagreements about how to share power.
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Kiir and Machar were expected to meet on Thursday to try and resolve their differences, following the dismissal of defence minister Angelina Teny, who is also Machar’s wife.
Kiir handed the defence ministry to his party, despite the terms of the agreement stating that the position was meant to be appointed by Machar’s party.
Machar has condemned the move calling on Kiir to reinstate Teny, but did not threaten to walk away from the peace agreement.
