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Africa-Press – South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>The First Vice President Dr Riek Machar has requested IGAD intervention in the deadlock over the firing and replacement of the former defense minister with an SPLM member.<\/p>\n

Machar wrote to Abdel Fatah Al Burhan, chairman of the IGAD Assembly of the Heads of State and Government and chairman of the Sudan Transitional Sovereign Council.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am writing to inform you that President Kiir has unexpectedly interrupted the ongoing negotiations to resolve the recent violation by appointing the Minister of Defense and Veteran Affairs,\u201d reads the letter dated March 30, 2023.<\/p>\n

In an exclusive interview with Eye Radio on Monday, his spokesperson Puok Both Baluang said the decision of the president is putting the peace deal in jeopardy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese grave violations are putting the R-ARCSS in jeopardy, and there is a need for IGAD to intervene concerning this matter and resolve all these grave violations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Earlier in March, President Kiir dismissed Angelina Teny and Mahmoud Solomon from the defense and interior ministries.<\/p>\n

The president then issued a similar decree \u2013 switching the ministry of defense to the SPLM docket and the interior to the SPLM-IO.<\/p>\n

The stalemate prompted the Ethiopian Prime Ministry to visit Juba where he met President Slava Kiir and his First Deputy Riek Machar to discuss the latest stalemate.<\/p>\n

On March 29, 2023, Kiir appointed Lt. Gen. Chol Thon Balok, who was sworn into office the next day as the new Defense Minister despite SPLM-IO disapproval of the ministerial changes.<\/p>\n

Following the decree, Machar\u2019s spokesperson Baluang told Eye Radio that the SPLM-IO still rejects Kiir\u2019s decision as the two principals are yet to resolve the issue.<\/p>\n

Several communications attached to the letter sent to IGAD show that President Salva Kiir, through the presidential affairs minister, had written to First Vice President Machar, requesting to be given the defense ministry in exchange for a key ministry from his docket.<\/p>\n

The letter said the reason for the swap is to enable the president to exercise effective command of the national army in order to defend the country.<\/p>\n

Machar then responded saying he believes President Kiir can still exercise command of the army with Angelina Teny as the Defense Minister.<\/p>\n

The peace-monitoring body \u2013 Reconstituted Joint and Monitoring and Evaluation Commission previously encouraged consultation between President Kiir and his First Deputy Dr Riek Machar to resolve such disputes.<\/p>\n

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