South Sudan

Civil society situation analysis on the socio-political turmoil in South Sudan

INTRODUCTION

The crisis in South Sudan was avoidable and a self-inflicted disaster created by the political and military leadership of that country. There is no excuse or justification for the war that started on 13 December 2013.

South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir and his erstwhile vice president, Dr Riek Machar – the current rebel leader – recently agreed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to form an interim government within 60 days. That is all that is known about the agreement. The details remain a mystery.

It is the question of leadership within the Sudanese Peoples Liberation Movement (SPLM) that brought South Sudan to the current shame of devastating rebellion.

ABOUT THE ROLE

The year 2013 marked of the start of political upheavals and speculations in the Republic of South Sudan.

The current shocking developments of the armed conflict in South Sudan were rather sudden though somewhat anticipated. Through the years, I have tried to remain optimistic about South Sudan.

January 7, 2014
Attention: Lucy Tamlyn, Director,
Office of the Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, Washington, D.C.
email: [email][email protected]

INTRODUCTION

As soon as the leader of the Sudan People's Revolutionary Army, (SPLA) John Garang, was killed on 30 July 2005, in a mysterious helicopter crash, while he was returning to his base in Juba, from a trip to Uganda, I smelt a rat.