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| UN: South Sudan election risks prolonging civil war |
| 2017-09-10 |
| [Al Jazeera] South Sudan's plan to hold elections next year risks "deepening and extending" an already devastating civil war, the United Nations ...an organization conceived in the belief that we're just one big happy world, with the sort of results you'd expect from such nonsense... warned. Haile Menkerios, the UN secretary-general's special envoy to the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... about the elections planned for July 2018 during a joint meeting of the visiting UN Security Council and the African Union's Peace and Security Council. South Sudan's election can only be held in a stable environment where "people are not displaced by violence and hunger and in which they are able to express their political views free from intimidation," the envoy said on Friday. President Salva Kiir seeks an election that will be the first vote on his leadership since South Sudan won independence in 2011 from Sudan. Presidential elections set for 2015 were delayed by civil war that began in late 2013. |
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