South Sudan’s Kiir sacks parliament speaker and deputy

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit.

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South Sudan President Salva Kiir has sacked the East African nation's speaker and ​deputy speaker of parliament, according to ‌a decree read out in the parliament on Tuesday.

Tulio Odongi Ayahu, chief whip of Kiir's ruling Sudan People's ​Liberation Movement (SPLM), announced the decree removing ​Speaker Jemma Nunu Kumba and her deputy, ⁠Permena Awerial Aluong, from their posts in ​the Transitional National Legislative Assembly.