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The announcement came three months before the planned vote and a day after Kiir signed amendments to the National Elections Act, 2012, following their passage by Parliament.
The president recalled expressing doubts about having several vice presidents even before South Sudan became independent, saying he questioned former Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir over how such an arrangement would work.
Steward Soroba Budia's appointment was announced in a presidential order dated 30 January, but local media pointed out that the member of the opposition United Democratic Party (UDP), had died five years ago.
The pronouncement, made on Friday, August 1, 2025, in Nairobi, comes months after the initiative was quietly suspended.
MSF teams have seen entire villages forced to flee, with hospitals, health centres, and community facilities deserted.
Reath Muoch Tang, an opposition lawmaker and senior figure in Machar's party, said the government's classification of several Nuer counties as hostile was a dangerous move.
Records available to both governments indicate that Kintu, born on April 2, 1977, is a citizen of the Democratic Republic of Congo, not South Sudan.
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