{"id":14508,"date":"2025-11-04T11:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T09:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/south-sudan-president-sacks-finance-minister-after-only-two-months-in-post\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:27:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:27:04","slug":"south-sudan-president-sacks-finance-minister-after-only-two-months-in-post","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/south-sudan-president-sacks-finance-minister-after-only-two-months-in-post\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan President sacks Finance Minister after only two months in post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Sudan&#8217;s President Salva Kiir has fired the country&#8217;s Finance Minister just over two months after appointing him, extending a relentless churn in key cabinet posts in the world&#8217;s newest country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation announced late on Monday that Kiir had relieved Athian Diing Athian of his position as Finance Minister, appointing Barnaba Bak Chol in his place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Analysts say Kiir regularly reshuffles the ranks of South Sudan&#8217;s military and government to maintain control as he contends with armed conflict and speculation within the country about his eventual succession.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kiir has led a transitional government in the impoverished and fractured nation since independence from Sudan in 2011.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled elections have twice been postponed and First Vice President Riek Machar, Kiir&#8217;s main rival during a 2013-2018 civil war, was charged earlier this year with treason.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>No reason was given for the eighth change of Finance Minister since 2020. Barnaba Bak Chol previously held the position for about half a year until he was fired in March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":14509,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-14508","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's Finance Minister","published_date":"2025-11-04 13:24:53","news_description":"South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has fired the country's Finance Minister","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14508\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19135,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/14508\/revisions\/19135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=14508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}