{"id":1471,"date":"2021-09-12T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2021-09-12T14:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means"},"modified":"2021-09-12T15:16:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-12T15:16:25","slug":"kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means","title":{"rendered":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press<\/a> – South-Sudan<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being snakes who have failed to defeat him through military means saying rebellion in the world\u2019s youngest country will be brought to an end when the country conduct elections at the end of the transitional period.<\/p>\n

Speaking during a meeting at Freedom Hall in Juba with the SPLM Youth League on Saturday, Kiir said the same people who took up arms against the government have failed to achieve their regime-change agenda and have since returned to the government and are staying in the form of snakes seeking to destroy from within.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe people who took guns yesterday to remove us, but did not manage, came here and they ran away again to the bush. The mediators when to get them and brought them to us. So what can we do? Snake can hide in your house, you cannot fight it inside the house there, but you look for something to motivate it to come out and then hit it in the head,\u201d Kiir said.<\/p>\n

Kiir told the gathering that for the rebellion in the country to be put to an end and for the opposition to be silenced, there must be elections at the end of the transitional period in which the citizens will vote them out stressing that he accepted five vice-presidents to silent the opposition through the ballot box.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, we have to go for elections to bring to an end to this coming to power through shortcut so the people elect the people they want. So, we have to go for elections because we don\u2019t want to return to war,\u201d Kiir said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI accepted five vice-presidents because we don\u2019t go back to war. Who can mention to me a country with five vice-presidents in the region and in the world? They wanted to divide my powers among themselves so that I don\u2019t dominate the people,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – South-Sudan. President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being snakes who have failed to defeat him through military means saying rebellion in the world\u2019s youngest country will be brought to an end when the country conduct elections at the end of the transitional period. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12],"tags":[234,265,721,365,233],"class_list":["post-1471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-defeat","tag-military","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"\nKiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being sn ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being sn ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-12T14:34:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-12T15:16:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"479\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-12T14:34:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-12T15:16:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\"},\"wordCount\":347,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"defeat\",\"military\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\",\"name\":\"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means - South Sudan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-12T14:34:20+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-12T15:16:25+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being sn ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":479,\"caption\":\"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\",\"name\":\"South Sudan\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means - South Sudan","description":"President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being sn ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means","og_description":"President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being sn ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means","og_site_name":"South Sudan","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-09-12T14:34:20+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-09-12T15:16:25+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":479,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means","datePublished":"2021-09-12T14:34:20+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-12T15:16:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means"},"wordCount":347,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Sudan","defeat","military","South-Sudan"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means","name":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means - South Sudan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg","datePublished":"2021-09-12T14:34:20+00:00","dateModified":"2021-09-12T15:16:25+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"President Salva Kiir has described opposition parties who are signatories to the revitalized peace agreement of being sn ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2021\/09\/img-613e19a7d7bff.jpg","width":1024,"height":479,"caption":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-describes-peace-partners-as-snakes-who-failed-to-defeat-him-through-military-means#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Kiir describes peace partners as \u2018snakes\u2019 who failed to defeat him through military means"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/","name":"South Sudan","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}