Elections postponed again

South Sudan’s long-awaited elections have been postponed for a further two years, once again extending a transitional period agreed in a peace deal. News24 reports that citizens have waited to elect their leaders since South Sudan achieved its hard-won independence from Sudan in 2011, with the world's newest nation still dogged by violence and political infighting. Cabinet Affairs Minister Martin Elia Lomuro said the extension was ‘in response to the recommendations from both electoral institutions and the security sector’. The international community has grown increasingly exasperated, as the disputes between the two men have left key provisions of the transitional agreement unfulfilled.