South Sudan President Salva Kiir named veteran ex-rebel commander James Wani Igga to be his deputy on Friday, succeeding the controversial former vice-president Riek Machar, state radio said.
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Parliament speaker James Wani Igga was on Friday appointed South Sudan’s new vice-president after apparently deciding to drop his presidential ambitions, a high-ranking member of the political bureau said. “Comrade James Wani is a wise man. He shows [the] symbolic and unifying characters of a leader. He puts the national interest above everything else, and has now decided voluntarily to drop off the race for the SPLM chairmanship. He is not showing interest in in these divisive regional and tribal politics”, the source said.