The Election of President Donald Trump: What does it mean for South Sudan?
5 min readThe US Presidential Election Final results in favor of President Kiir’s presumptive choice, Donald Trump! Does it mean anything to South Sudan?
By Emmanuel Ariech Deng, Juba, South Sudan
November 9, 2016 (SSB) —- The western democracy has constantly remained a concern for the rest of the globe with US elections drawing attention from all the corners of the political world and their interests on Republican and Democratic Presidential Candidates in the race for the White House.
In considering the burdens of exposition, the conventional wisdom of those foreign head of states that openly engaged in taking sides, should have been just containing their support position neutral or confidential to themselves on any of the candidates until the absolute majority of the American people vetoed with the stack choice to determine their future of the race, the decision American people have just executed today.
Notwithstanding some leaders pledging of allegiance to Trump and Hillary, it has always been hard to correctly predict the presidential winner of the US elections. As luckily as the President interest on Trump became a reality, there seems a glimpse of hope in South Sudan-US relations. Now that Salva Kiir earlier phone call has just materialized, this should be followed by an influential congratulatory message to the President Elect, H.E Donald J. Trump acknowledging the esteemed efforts exerted by the great people of United States of America and their transparent democratic systems in choosing their leader.
As early as the primary campaigns intensified, the President of the Republic of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit without diplomatic hesitation, burst out with a call to Donald Trump and praised him of winning the republican presidential nomination to the White House, a stereotype seen as a disappointment over Obama administration and its imperceptible foreign policies towards South Sudan in the recent leadership conflict of 2013 and 2016 relatively contrasted.
The Republican Presidential Nominee and President Elect, Donald Trump was extremely excited for the phone conversation to the extent of narrating the story in one of the rallies on how he was being vividly preferred to become the next US President by the President of the newest and poorest country in Africa- South Sudan, roared Trump, with a positive mood that suggests true partnership with Kiir in his white House tenure track.
Although President Kiir open partisanship to Donald J. Trump during the campaign trials could be viewed as a political blunder in another camp, still the President Elect Donald Trump would be spiritually and internally cohesive with President Kiir for his bold position towards the race to secure the U.S forty-fifth Presidential seat. For some other Presidents who had publically declared their support to Hillary Clinton, should understand that now is the time to swallow these political blunders and forge new co-operations with the world’s well-planned super-powering nation.
However, the position of our President Salva Kiir to wish Trump success in his bid to become US President was his choice and did not represent the general opinion of South Sudanese in 2016 American elections, because we at some instances, we were also divided along the lines of Republicans, Democrats and associated foreign policies towards weak nations such as South Sudan where some political and economic compromises are direly needed to pave way for the development of basic infrastructure.
The author of this article rated the two US presidential candidates of 2016 as not the prominent leaders to satisfactorily spearhead the increasing terrorism and insurgency at its peak of orchestration in the Middle East and some parts in Africa. The consequence of that triggered mass and suicidal migrations to Europe across Mediterranean Sea in the recent years. Therefore, I during the campaigns trails, only admired how the two names have sweetly resonated in my ears as BBC reported about them.
Let us accept and respect the outcome of the elections to the credit of the American electoral systems and its people, that they have questioned Obama utterances that “I do not think Trump will be my successor” have questioned the doubting Thomas, because the strength and power of US isn’t built on individual but the robust institutions established by the founding fathers of American history, power and heritage.
Today, American power still stands firmly on the spirit of nationalism empowered by strong institutions that have overwhelmingly and continuously contributed to the unshakable foundation of the American people and their supervision on democratic principles within the US and around the world to mark the end of political malpractices.
The outstanding respect to the Bill of Rights, rule of law and choices based on one’s ideas on how to run the country and protection of its citizens, rather than one’s interest on the country wealth and impoverishment of citizens made the US elections popular. Lack of this quality, disenfranchised some African democracies for centuries and plunged the continent over the years into a persistent political conflict and underdevelopment with huge wealth and mineral resources becoming a curse instead of blessing to the lands and its people.
The writer is a cognoscente (a discerning expert in special knowledge) and can be reached via ariechemmanuel2015@gmail.com
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