{"id":122172,"date":"2021-05-10T14:43:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122172"},"modified":"2021-05-10T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2021-05-10T06:43:57","slug":"south-sudan-president-dissolves-parliament-in-line-with-peace-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122172","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan president dissolves parliament in line with peace deal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/South-Sudan-president-dissolves-parliament-in-line-with-peace-deal-1256209?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/612\/61248070.295.jpg\" alt=\"South Sudan's President Salva Kiir\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>South Sudan&#8217;s President Salva Kiir<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JUBA, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South Sudan&#8217;s President Salva Kiir has dissolved parliament, a long-awaited step to pave the way for the appointment of lawmakers from formerly warring parties in the country.<br><br>The move was in line with a peace deal signed to end a civil war that began in 2013.<br><br>The president dissolved parliament on Saturday and the new body will be formed in &#8220;a matter of time, not too long&#8221;, his spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said.<br><br>According to the deal that ended the civil war, parliament must be expanded from 400 members to 550 and must include members from all parties to the peace accord.<br><br>South Sudan won independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of civil war. Violence erupted in late 2013 after Kiir, from the Dinka ethnic group, sacked vice president Riek Machar, a Nuer.<br><br>The two men have signed many deals to end a war estimated to have killed more than 400,000 people. They repeatedly pushed back deadlines to form a government of national unity, but in 2020 finally did so.<br><br>Despite the peace deal, violence is still raging in parts of the country, according to United Nations reports. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudan&#8217;s President Salva Kiir JUBA, May 10 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; South Sudan&#8217;s President Salva Kiir has dissolved parliament, a long-awaited step to pave the way for the appointment of lawmakers from formerly warring parties in the country. The move was in line with a peace deal signed to end a civil war that began in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":122180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122172"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/122180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}