EDITORIAL: The status quo won’t hold long in South Sudan
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir (right) and opposition leader Riek Machar make peace at the 33rd Extraordinary Summit of Igad in Addis Ababa on September 12, 2018. PHOTO | AFP
On July 9, South Sudan quietly slipped through the eighth anniversary of its Independence from Khartoum, in what could easily pass as the most sober commemoration of liberty anywhere in recent memory.
With the state unable to throw a party and civil servants going for months without pay, the occasion turned into a kind of unofficial referendum on the public’s view of the separation from their Northern sibling.
