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By Denis Dumo
JUBA, July 12 – The South Sudanese parliament decided Thursday to extend the term of President Salva Kiir until 2021 in a move likely to undermine peace talks as groups Opposition said the change would be illegal. The vote will strengthen the government team in peace talks with rebel groups in Khartoum, Sudan, said Paul Youani Bonju, chairman of the parliament's information committee. The extension also applies to vice-presidents, state legislators and governors.
South Sudan acceded to independence in 2011 but exploded in violence in late 2013 over a political disagreement between Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar. move as he shows the scheme plays games at the negotiating table. The international community should not recognize this movement and the regime should be declared a rogue regime, "Mabior Garang de Mabior, spokesman for the Machar rebel group, the SPLM-OI, told Reuters by telephone from Nairobi. [19659002] extend the terms of office of the president and other public servants until July 12, 2021.
This week the Machar rebel group rejected plans to reinstate Machar as vice-president, saying that he Had not diluted the power of Kiir, a deal signed in June Lampar Gabriel Paul, deputy military spokesman for SPLA-IO of Machar, said that government troops attacked his positions on Thursday at Kajo Keji, in North West, in fighting that killed five government soldiers and a rebel, government military spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said the rebels ambushed and killed three of their soldiers who went to get wild cbadava on Tuesday.
The civil war killed tens of thousands of people and forced millions to flee.
It also reduced South Sudan's crude oil production, which the government depends on for its revenues, with production at less than half its prewar level of 245,000 barrels a day. (Edited by George Obulutsa and Matthew Mpoke Bigg)
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