"I, President Salva Kiir do hereby issue this ... decree for the
appointment of ministers of the transitional government of national
unity ... effect from April 28," the statement said.
South
Sudan's President Salva Kiir (R) and his First Vice President Riek
Machar (L) stand during the national anthem after he was sworn-in at the
Presidential House in South Sudan's capital Juba, April 26, 2016.
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir
named a new cabinet including former rebels and members of the
opposition on Thursday, a step forward in a drawn-out peace process
aimed at ending more than two years of conflict.
The
decree read out on state television and radio said a third of the
ministers in the new 30-member "national unity" cabinet were members of
the SPLM-IO party led by Kiir's long-term rival Riek Machar.
Fighting
broke out between both men's supporters in the capital in December 2013
after Kiir sacked Machar as first vice president. That triggering
ethnically charged clashes across the oil-producer that the U.N. says
have killed thousands and forced more than 2.3 million to flee.
Under pressure from the United States, the United Nations and other powers, both sides signed a peace deal in August, but it broke down repeatedly.
Machar only returned to Juba on Tuesday, and was swiftly given back his old job.
"I,
President Salva Kiir do hereby issue this ... decree for the
appointment of ministers of the transitional government of national
unity ... effect from April 28," the statement said.
In
a sign of lingering violence, the U.N. Mission in South Sudan said one
of its compounds in the northern town of Bentiu was attacked with a
rocket propelled grenade and gunfire on Monday, damaging a container. It
did not name the attacker.
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