{{South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has named new cabinet ministers, but he is yet to name a vice president.}}<\/p>\n
In a presidential decree on Wednesday evening, Mr Kiir named 19 ministers and 10 deputies, barely a week after sacking his former Vice President Riek Machar and dissolving the entire cabinet.<\/p>\n
Mr Machar has indicated that he is now eyeing the presidency.<\/p>\n
The list is a mixture of new and old faces. Notably, President Kiir named the governor of the restive Jonglei State and career soldier, Kuol Manyang Juuk, as the new defence minister.<\/p>\n
A former member of the Sudan’s Islamist Popular Congress Party who ran against President Omar al-Bashir in April 2010, Abdhalla Deng Nhial, has been named minister for Electricity, Dams and Water Resources.<\/p>\n
Mr Kiir also named the former chairman for the-then southern sector of Bashir’s ruling National Congress Party, Mr Riek Gai, as the new health minister.<\/p>\n
Ms Awut Deng Achuil, who had resigned as Labor and Public Service Minister, has been taken to the gender docket.<\/p>\n
Most of the former ministers have been dropped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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