South Sudan's President Warns Against Clinging to Power

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir warns lawmakers not to cling to power and urges parliament to pass necessary laws for elections.

South Sudan ’s President Salva Kiir warned lawmakers “not to cling to power” just weeks after his former rival turned deputy proposed a postponement of elections expected to be held in December. Kiir said an extension of the period of transition to elections would deny citizens an opportunity to choose their leaders and urged parliament to pass the necessary laws to pave the way for the elections.

South Sudan was supposed to hold elections before February 2023 but that timetable was pushed back last August to December 2024

We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

AP /  🏆 728. in US

South Sudan President Salva Kiir Elections Power Parliament

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

World’s largest hunger crisis looms in Sudan, UN warns, as humanitarian response hits ‘breaking point’The war in Sudan has left more than 25 million people “trapped in a spiral” of food insecurity, according to the United Nations’ World Food Program.
Read more »

UN warns Sudan among 'worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory''By all measures — the sheer scale of humanitarian needs, the numbers of people displaced and facing hunger — Sudan is one of the worst humanitarian disasters in recent memory,' UN official Edem Wosornu says.
Read more »

South Sudan activist, Utah man charged with trying to illegally export arms for coup back homeA leading South Sudanese academic and activist living in exile in the U.S. has been charged along with a Utah man born in the African nation on charges of conspiring to buy and illegally export millions of dollars' worth of weapons to overthrow the government back home.
Read more »

Alicia Menendez warns 'there's real danger’ of GOP's false border linkage to President BidenThis is additional taxonomy that helps us with analytics
Read more »

South Sudan shuts schools for scorching heat waveThe two-week long heatwave threatens dangerously high temperatures of 45 degrees, prompting the shutdown to safeguard children's wellbeing.
Read more »

UN reports a 35% increase in people affected by violence in South SudanThe United Nations says the number of people affected by violence in South Sudan surged by 35% in the last three months of 2023
Read more »