{"id":31089,"date":"2026-04-08T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31089"},"modified":"2026-04-08T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:20:41","slug":"south-sudan-president-appoints-new-parliamentary-speaker-deputy","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/south-sudan-president-appoints-new-parliamentary-speaker-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan President appoints new parliamentary Speaker, Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">South Sudan President Salva Kiir has appointed Joseph Ngere Paciko as the new Speaker of the Transitional National Legislative Assembly, and Abuk Paiti Ayiik as the Deputy Speaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">This after he issued a Presidential decree formally dismissing Jemma Nunu Kumba as Speaker and her Deputy, Permena Awerial Aluong, on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The move follows a petition last week by Kiir&#8217;s ruling Sudan People&#8217;s Liberation Movement, accusing Kumba of corruption linked to the alleged mismanagement of parliamentary funds and calling for her removal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Kumba, who made history in 2021 as the first woman to serve as speaker of South Sudan&#8217;s parliament, has dismissed the allegations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Channel Africa&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23349,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-31089","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"President Salva Kiir has appointed Joseph Ngere Paciko as the new Speaker","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31089","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\/31089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31090,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31089\/revisions\/31090"}],"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=31089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}