South Sudanese President Promises First Elections Since Independence
South Sudanese President Salva Kiir pledged on Tuesday that elections, previously postponed and now scheduled for next year, would go ahead as planned, and that he would run for president. Salva Kiir, a prominent warlord, is the only president South Sudan has known since he led the country to independence from Sudan in 2011. The world's youngest country has since gone from crisis to crisis, held together only by a […]