Dame Rosalind Marsden

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South Sudan's power-sharing deal and a battle of elites

SOUTH Sudan’s long-running peace process has reached another milestone. On September 12, President Salva Kiir and opposition leaders, including Riek Machar, signed a power-sharing deal promising an end to the five-year conflict that is estimated to have claimed nearly 400,000 lives and displaced one-third of the population. Under the deal, which is a “revitalized” version of a previous deal reached in 2015, Machar will be reinstated as first vice-president with a reconstituted transitional government to be established in May 2019.