{{South Sudanese President Salva Kiir has named new cabinet ministers, but he is yet to name a vice president.}}
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.
Mr Machar has indicated that he is now eyeing the presidency.
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.
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.
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.
Ms Awut Deng Achuil, who had resigned as Labor and Public Service Minister, has been taken to the gender docket.
Most of the former ministers have been dropped.
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