South Sudan President dissolves Parliament as part of peace accord

The new legislative body will have lawmakers from opposing sides

South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has dissolved Parliament, opening the way for lawmakers from opposing sides of the country’s civil war to be appointed under a 2018 peace accord. Mr. Kiir’s decision was announced on public television on Saturday evening but no date was given as to when the new Parliament will begin working. The setting up of a new legislative body was part of an accord signed in September 2018 between Mr. Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar, for years on opposition sides during the five-year civil war that left 3,80,000 people dead and four million displaced.