South Sudan: Kiir Says Citizens Should Decide On Federalism

3 June 2014

Juba — South Sudanese should be allowed to decide on how they want to be governed and federalism should not be imposed onto them, president Salva Kiir said Monday.

"The issue of federalism that is seems used by Riek Machar on pretext that he wants to divide the internal front is not really viable at all because federalism has been the demand of people of South Sudan for a long time even before the independence of Sudan," Kiir said while opening the National Legislative Assembly.

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