Why sacked South Sudan Foreign minister was a marked man

Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Ramadan Abdallah Goc was fired by President Salva Kiir and appointed a member of parliament.

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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dismissed his Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation minister Ramadan Abdallah Goc in his latest Cabinet reshuffle, cutting short Goc’s Cabinet tenure of less than two years.

In a presidential decree broadcast on Wednesday evening on the state-run South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC), President Kiir sacked the minister but appointed him a member of parliament.