This Week in South Sudan - Week 39

Tuesday 25 September

• South Sudanese surgeon Dr. Evan Ata Adaha was awarded the 2018 UNHCR’s Nansen Refugee Award.
• President Kiir appointed Malek Reuben Riak Rengu, a UN-sanctioned general, as deputy defence minister.
• Mahmood Mamdani in New York Times: “The Trouble with South Sudan’s New Peace Deal”.

Wednesday 26 September

• The SPLA and SPLA-IO accused each other for renewed violent clashes in Western Bahr el Ghazal and Unity states.
• President Kiir appointed Deng Dau Deng Malek as deputy foreign minister.

Thursday 27 September

• President Salva Kiir named the 10 members of the National Pre-Transitional Committee: Tut Kew Gatluak, Henry Odwuor, Gabriel Changson, Martin Elia Lomuro, Michael Makuei Lueth, Dhieu Mathok Diing, Awut Deng Achuil, Deng Alor Kuol, Puot Kang, and Peter Mayen Majongdit.
• Relief Web: “South Sudan: Force Protection Map as of October 2018”

Friday 28 September

• President Kiir ordered the immediately release of prisoners of war and detainees. While Nyagoah Pur, Human Rights Watch, argues that “Government Should Take [further] Steps to End Abuses” by releasing those held without charge and investigate all allegations of abuse and torture of detainees.

Sunday 30 September

• South Sudan’s foreign minister Nhial Deng Nhial did not acknowledge Western Sahara as an independent state in a meeting with the foreign minister of Morocco, Nasser Bourita.