{"id":24153,"date":"2026-02-24T08:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/south-sudan-president-fires-finance-minister-after-just-three-months-in-office\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:53","slug":"south-sudan-president-fires-finance-minister-after-just-three-months-in-office","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/south-sudan-president-fires-finance-minister-after-just-three-months-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan President fires Finance Minister after just three months in office"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>South Sudan President Salva Kiir fired Finance Minister Bak Barnaba Chol in a reshuffle that was unveiled on state television on Monday evening.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Chol was appointed to the post in November after the President\u00a0fired Athian Diing Athian just two months after appointing him.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Kiir appointed Salvatore Garang, an economist trained at the University of Khartoum in Sudan, as the new Finance Minister.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Garang previously served as Finance Minister\u00a0from 2018 to 2020, a period marked by economic reforms and fiscal strains.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>During his first stint in the role, local media reported that Garang faced corruption allegations, including that he allocated $100 000 to cover the cost of his son&#8217;s funeral. He has not commented on the allegations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The decree also removed several other senior officials, including the commissioner general of the National Revenue Authority, as part of the broader administrative changes.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Analysts say Kiir regularly makes changes to ranks in the military and government to maintain control as he contends with armed conflict and speculation about his eventual succession.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23349,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[78,44],"class_list":["post-24153","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"President Kiir fires Finance Minister Bak Barnaba Chol","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24153","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\/24153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26920,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/24153\/revisions\/26920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=24153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}