South Sudan President Salva Kiir on Wednesday sacked the foreign minister, less than a week after the dismissal of the ministers of defence and interior and he did not provide an explanation.
Foreign minister Mayiik Ayii is a close ally of Kiir, and previously served as the minister of the president's office., which have threatened to destroy a fragile peace deal with opposition leader First Vice President Riek Machar.
"It's a normal business. People can be relieved and replaced," Kiir's spokesperson Lily Martin Manyiel said. Kiir and Machar's forces signed a peace agreement in 2018 that ended five years of 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 Revitalized 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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