South Sudan is set to hold its first election in 2024: 3 critical preconditions for the election
Posted: 4 April, 2024 Filed under: Mark Deng | Tags: 2024 election, arms proliferation, civil war, communal conflicts, deadly violence, democratic right, epidemic of insecurity, incidents of violence, outbreak of violence, population census, revitalised agreement, South Sudan, Transitional Period, Unification of forces 1 Comment
Author: Mark Deng
McKenzie Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Melbourne, Australia
South Sudan was supposed to hold its first election as an independent country in 2015. However, a civil war erupted in 2013 that threw the country into a deep state of insecurity, inevitably altering the government’s priorities. Restoring peace urgently became the focus for the government.
The government and other parties to the war signed the revitalised agreement in 2018, paving the way for the establishment of the current unity government at the beginning of 2020. The unity government was given a 3-year tenure – the transitional period. This was extended in 2022 for 2 more years to give the parties enough time to resolve critical issues outstanding in the revitalised agreement.
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