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South Sudan names unity cabinet in step toward peace

By Reuters | Apr. 29, 2016

South Sudan president Salva Kiir and his Vice President Riek Machar. (Photo: Courtesy)

Juba: 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.

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