By Hilde F. Johnson
In July 2011, South Sudan was once granted independence and have become the world's most modern state. but simply two-and-a-half years after this momentous choice, the rustic used to be within the grips of renewed civil conflict and political strife. Hilde F. Johnson served as certain consultant of the Secretary-General and Head of the United countries challenge within the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 till July 2014. As such, she was once witness to the numerous demanding situations which the rustic confronted because it struggled to regulate to its new independent nation. during this ebook, she presents an unheard of insider's account of South Sudan's descent from the ecstatic celebrations of July 2011 to the outbreak of the disastrous clash in December 2013 and the early, bloody part of the combating. Johnson's common own and personal contacts on the maximum degrees of presidency, observed via her deep wisdom of the rustic and its heritage, make this a different eyewitness account of the turbulent first 3 years of the world's newest―and but such a lot fragile― state.
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The oil curse: Entitlement in dollars The oil curse has afflicted most oil-producing countries, creating both a culture of corruption and a culture of overspending, often leading to the so-called Dutch disease (an overheated economy with major macroeconomic imbalances). However, one important point must be made at the outset; without oil production and the income expected from it, South Sudan would not have been seen as a viable state. Prospects of international support for self-determination (and subsequently independence) might have been dim.
As first vice president of Sudan and, now, president of the Government of South Sudan (GoSS), he would appoint ministers in Khartoum and the South, selections influenced by tensions within the SPLM/A. Hence the Government of National Unity consisted largely of ministers less committed to the CPA. This had an impact on implementation. The next five years would test Salva Kiir’s authority. On 12 August, less than two weeks after assuming the chairmanship, he met for the first time in years the disaffected Nuer militia leader Paulino Matip.
As Clapham says,8 they comprise people prepared to sacrifice their lives for a cause, and who come to power with an abiding memory of martyrs. They believe that with independence they have earned the right to run the government. They find it hard to recognize others’ right to govern, instead imbuing their own sacrifices with a virtually permanent and exclusive claim on state power. With this sense of legitimacy, actual performance in government becomes less important, and might even be irrelevant.