South Sudan will not wait for its constitution to be approved by Khartoum before forming a government, a vital move toward the reconstruction of the devastated land, southern Sudan's president said yesterday. Salva Kiir, the president of south Sudan and head of the former rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement, declined to say when he would name the heads of more than 20 ministries the southern administration announced this week.
But he promised it would happen before the constitution, still being discussed in the southern parliament, was approved by the Sudanese government's Justice Ministry. "We will not wait for that. We will have to put in place a caretaker government until when the constitution is out, then that government will be confirmed. So it will not take a couple of weeks again," Kiir told Reuters. "The formation of the government of south Sudan will be soon." |