South Sudan’s Transitional Government of National Unity has been declared after the swearing of the opposition leader, Riek Machar, as the First Vice-President shortly after his arrival in the country’s national capital, Juba, on Tuesday, 26 April,2016.
Machar’s plane touched down in Juba at about 3:45pm. The top opposition leader who chairs the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM-IO) was received by several of his senior officials and a number of government ministers.
Machar, from the airport drove straight to the Presidential Palace (J1) where President Salva Kiir, his main rival, but peace partner, was waiting for him. He immediately took oath of office as first vice president of the world’s youngest nation before President Kiir.
The Transitional Government of National Unity formed retains most old faces from previous cabinets.
SOURCE: CRN