![]() ![]() Children of the political elites are returning with money and opening trendy restaurants, and construction is booming.īut outside the capital is a different reality. Billboards of Kiir and Machar shaking hands above the words “peace, unity, reconciliation and development” line the streets. During a conference in May on reconciliation and healing, President Salva Kiir vowed that “I will never take South Sudan and its people to war again.” The government says it’s serious about the peace process and will hold elections on time. But some diplomats are concerned that another extension to the peace deal would send a negative message to South Sudanese citizens, investors and aid donors. The international community is exasperated with South Sudan’s lack of progress.Īt a press conference in May, United Nations representative Nicholas Haysom cautioned that the conditions did not currently exist to hold transparent, free and fair elections. The country was voted the second most corrupt in the world last year by Transparency International. South Sudan has billions of dollars in reserves but there is little transparency on where the money goes. “They don’t have genuine political will to implement the peace agreement because they look at the agreement from the angle that it is crippling their powers,” said Puok Both Baluang, acting press secretary for the first vice president, head of the main opposition and former rebel leader Riek Machar. ![]() The opposition accuses the government of lacking political will to hold elections so it can keep plundering the nation’s resources, which include oil. ![]()
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