{"id":38404,"date":"2025-08-07T10:09:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/?p=38404"},"modified":"2025-08-07T10:09:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T08:09:43","slug":"kiir-relieves-dr-machars-top-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/kiir-relieves-dr-machars-top-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiir relieves Dr. Machar&#8217;s top ally"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_38405\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-38405\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-38405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mai-300x192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mai-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mai.jpg 392w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-38405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pal Mai Deng former Minister of Water and Irrigation\/courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Yiep Joseph <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dismissed Minister of Water and Irrigation Pal Mai Deng.<\/p>\n<p>Mai is a top Dr. Riek Machar ally and the spokesperson of the Sudan People Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO).<\/p>\n<p>He left the country immediately after Dr. Machar&#8217;s house arrest in March.<\/p>\n<p>As the position went vacant for a period of more than five months, President Kiir on Wednesday relieved Mai and replaced him with James Mawich Makuac.<\/p>\n<p>The changes were made through presidential decrees read out on the state-owned broadcaster, South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC).<\/p>\n<p>In separate presidential decrees, Kiir also relieved and appointed officials in Eastern Equatoria State.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ministries where changes were made include Finance, Gender, Cooperative, and Rural Development.<\/p>\n<p>The changes also included the state advisor and state commissions.<\/p>\n<p>The president also reshuffled commissioners in two counties as well as made some changes in state Assembly.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Yiep Joseph South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has dismissed Minister of Water and Irrigation Pal Mai Deng. Mai is a top Dr. Riek Machar ally and the spokesperson of the Sudan People Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO). He left the country immediately after Dr. Machar&#8217;s house arrest in<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/kiir-relieves-dr-machars-top-ally\/\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":38405,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Mai.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38406,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38404\/revisions\/38406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}