{"id":28481,"date":"2022-12-05T14:51:16","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-pagan-officially-sacked-from-splm-party"},"modified":"2022-12-05T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:51:16","slug":"machar-pagan-officially-sacked-from-splm-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-pagan-officially-sacked-from-splm-party","title":{"rendered":"Machar, Pagan officially sacked from SPLM party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>South Sudan\u2019s ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) faction led by President Salva Kiir Mayardit has officially removed First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and Pagan Amum as members of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Machar, who fled the country in 2013 to form his own faction of the SPLM, will be replaced by Vice-President James Wani Igga who will now be the first deputy chair.<\/p>\n<p>He will be deputized by Daniel Awet Akot and Kuol Manyang Juuk as second and third deputy party chairpersons, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cComrade James Wani Iga is the new first deputy chairman,\u201d SPLM Secretary for Political Affairs and Mobilization, Kuol Atem Bol said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiek Machar has rebelled against the party. Why should he continue to be deputy chair and [yet he has already] established a party?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. South Sudan\u2019s ruling Sudan People\u2019s Liberation Movement (SPLM) faction led by President Salva Kiir Mayardit has officially removed First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny and Pagan Amum as members of the party. Machar, who fled the country in 2013 to form his own faction of the SPLM, will be replaced by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":28480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-28481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Machar, Pagan officially sacked from SPLM party - South Sudan<\/title>\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\/machar-pagan-officially-sacked-from-splm-party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Machar, Pagan officially sacked from SPLM party\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. 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