South Sudan is in turmoil. Most of it self-inflicted through incompetence, corruption, tribalism, nepotism and intolerance of its leaders. On December 3rd, 2013, South Sudanese President, Salva Kiir Mayardit, sensationally claimed that he had quashed a coup attempt by his former Vice-President Dr. Riek Machar, when many knew that Kiir was only trying to consolidate his iron hold on power ahead of what many South Sudanese expected to be a remarkable ruling party leadership convention a few days away. South Sudan has had a troubled history. When it eventually won her independence in 2011 after...
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