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South Sudan replaces election commission chief ahead of December vote
NAIROBI, Sept 16 (Reuters) – South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has replaced the head of the election commission, only about three months before the first national election since independence in 2011.
• The president, in an announcement read out by the state-owned broadcaster on Tuesday, said commission Secretary General Gabriel Bol Deng will replace Abednego Akok Kacuol. He gave no reason for the change.
• South Sudan has been at peace since a 2018 agreement ended a five-year conflict during which thousands of people were killed. Still, inter-communal violence is frequent.
