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South Sudan’s government and the SPLM-IO have agreed on how to form a national unity government, Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday in a statement.According to the statement, the agreement was announced by the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), a group overseeing the implementation of the peace deal in South Sudan.
The commission said the ministries of finance, defense, justice, and information will go to loyalists of President Salva Kiir, while the SPLM-IO under former Vice President Riek Machar, who had been slated to retake his post in the transitional government, picked the petroleum and interior ministries in the oil-rich country.
A group of former detainees took the foreign ministry, while a group of unarmed opposition parties will run Cabinet affairs.
The unity government, which lasts for three years before new elections, will have 30 ministries in total, out of which sixteen go to Kiir’s side, 10 to Machar’s, and two each to the group of former detainees and the opposition parties.
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