South Sudan's President Salva Kiir announced on Friday that the previously postponed presidential election is being postponed again. This time for two years.
The election was supposed to be held in December this year, but the president, who is sitting on a temporary mandate, proclaimed on social media that the presidential election will now be held first in December 2026.
South Sudan has thus still not managed to hold a presidential election since independence in 2011.
A civil war between the appointed president Kiir's supporters and then Vice President Riek Machar's followers broke out in 2013 and lasted for five years.
As part of the peace process, an agreement was reached on a transitional government, followed by a new presidential election. An attempt in February 2023 was postponed as the government had not fulfilled important parts of the agreement.
