South Sudan has faced dispute between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Dr. Riek Machar over the dismissal of a regional state official, against the backdrop of efforts to renew the law-making process in the country.
The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said that in order to work toward a true democracy, the South Sudanese government needed to move swiftly to implement the provisions set out in an agreement on revitalizing the peace process.