South Sudan fires military, finance chiefs
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former technical advisor at the ministry of trade salvatore garang mabiordit was named the new finance minister1 south sudans president salva kiir has dismissed army commander marial chanuong yol and finance minister stephen dhieu dau1 yol nicknamed tiger was the commander of the presidential guard before he was appointed the army chief of operations training and intelligence last year1 he was blacklisted by the un security council in 2015 for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the onset of war in december 2013 against members of the the nuer ethnic group1 mr dau was appointed finance minister in 2016 with the hope of improving south sudans straining economy1 however the economy of the young nation has never been stable especially since the 2015 devaluation of the south sudanese pound ssp1 kiir fired them without giving reasons1 south sudan attained independence in 2011 following a referendum whose outcome favoured the separation from sudan with a 98 per cent approval1 however it soon descended into another round of conflict pitting president kiirs loyalists and those allied to his former deputy riek machar1 the current phase of the south sudan war has claimed more than 100000 lives according to the international crisis group1 over 2 million south sudanese have become refugees in neighbouring countries and another 1.9 million others remain internally displaced according to the un. the war has also caused one of the worlds worst humanitarian crises after the rwanda 1994 genocide the un added.1 multiple human rights abuses have also been documented by various group1 source the1