South Sudan’s Kiir sacks Foreign Affairs minister

April 25, 2024 (JUBA) –  South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked Foreign Affairs minister James Pitia Morgan, naming him envoy to the Great Lakes region.

Appointed in August 2013, Morgan was South Sudan’s ambassador to Ethiopia.

Kiir, in a decree read on the state-owned television (SSBC) on Thursday, named Ramadan Abdala Goc as the new replacement for the Foreign Affairs minister.

Goc was deputy Foreign Affairs minister prior to the latest changes in the ministry.

The president appointed Monday Suraya Kumba as new deputy foreign minister while John Samuel Bwogo is the undersecretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Bwogo had previously served as South Sudan’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia.

The South Sudanese leader’s decree gave no reasons why changes were made.

(ST)