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Negotiating with Riek Machar will boost impunity

By By MBIJIWE MWENDA | Jan. 22, 2014

By MBIJIWE MWENDA

It was ill-advised for South Sudan President Silva Kiir to sack his deputy Mr Riek Machar in July 2013. Being a smart politician, he sugar-coated the act firing his entire cabinet, only to later reappoint his cronies, albeit to different portfolios.

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