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| South Sudan to delay 2015 presidential election |
| 2014-05-13 |
| [Iran Press TV] South Sudan's president says the 2015 presidential election will be postponed for two or three years in order to tackle the issue of reconciliation among the people. "Elections will not be held in 2015, because reconciliation between the people will have to take time," Salva Kiir said in the capital Juba late on Sunday. "The election (timetable) has to be extended for two or three years, so this interim government would remain in power and elections can be held in 2017 or 2018," Kiir added. He also accused the Nuer people, the ethnic group of sacked vice president and rebel leader Riek Machar, of violating a ceasefire they signed on Friday. However, there's more than one way to stuff a chicken... Machar's forces say the army violated the truce. Kiir and Machar signed the agreement in the Æthiopian capital Addis Ababa to end nearly five months of bloodshed in the world's youngest nation. They agreed to form a transitional government, hold new elections and open humanitarian corridors to ensure aid deliveries. |
| Posted by:Fred |