South Sudan polls date: Why another postponement looms
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit attends the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (Igad) 42nd Extraordinary Session at the state house Entebbe, Uganda on January 18, 2024. PHOTO | REUTERS
South Sudan is facing the prospect of a second extension of the transition period, owing to the continual delays in implementing crucial aspects of the 2018 peace agreement.
But, even the issue of extending that term itself, as well as whether to hold elections at all, is divisive. First Vice-President Riek Machar is pushing for extension, but that has also earned him increasing isolation from senior figures in the unity government, The EastAfrican understands.
