{"id":38608,"date":"2019-08-21T11:41:04","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:41:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38608"},"modified":"2019-08-21T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-08-21T03:41:06","slug":"south-sudan-appoints-new-foreign-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=38608","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan appoints new foreign minister"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/worldNews\/South-Sudan-appoints-new-foreign-minister-773826?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.net\/imagelib\/pics\/21266328.295.jpg\" alt=\"Salva Kiir\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JUBA, Aug 21 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; South Sudanese President Salva Kiir sacked foreign minister Nhial Deng Nhial and replaced him with former gender, child and social welfare minister Awut Deng Achuil.<br><br>Nhial, who was Kiir&#8217;s chief negotiator during last year&#8217;s peace talks in Sudan, was appointed to the post in July 2018.\u00a0<br><br>The South Sudanese leader also fired roads and bridges minster, Rebecca Joshua Okwaci and replaced her with Simon Mijok. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decrees announced on state-owned radio, South Sudan Broadcasting Cooperation (SSBC) Monday evening gave no reason for the changes.\u00a0<br><br>The cabinet reshuffle comes less than three months to the Nov 12 deadline for the formation of a new unity government as required by the 2018 peace agreement.\u00a0<br><br>South Sudan descended into civil war in late 2013 and the conflict has created one of the fastest-growing refugee crises in the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN estimates that about four million South Sudanese have been displaced internally and externally. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir JUBA, Aug 21 (NNN-XINHUA) &#8212; South Sudanese President Salva Kiir sacked foreign minister Nhial Deng Nhial and replaced him with former gender, child and social welfare minister Awut Deng Achuil. Nhial, who was Kiir&#8217;s chief negotiator during last year&#8217;s peace talks in Sudan, was appointed to the post in July [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"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\/38608"}],"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=38608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}