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Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

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Six South Sudanese journalists, including a photographer, a video editor, and two staff members in the equipment control room, were arrested on suspicion of spreading video of South Sudanese President Salva Kiir Mayardit urinating his pants in public, Reuters reported on January 8.

Recently, a video taken in December circulated on social media in South Sudan showing Kiir wearing a black hat, gray clothes, crutches, a dark water stain on his left leg and a puddle of water on the ground while attending an official event.

Apparently, Kiel peed his pants in public. The 71-year-old president looked down and acted calmly.

Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

Many netizens in South Sudan said that leaking such videos is unethical. Whether it is the president, or the 70-something, they should have their privacy and dignity and need to be respected.

In power for 18 years

Located in northern Africa, South Sudan has an area of about 620,000 square kilometers and a population of about 14.18 million, making it a landlocked country. South Sudan is also a newly established country, having only gained independence from Sudan in July 2011 and joining the United Nations that month.

Kiir has been South Sudan's president since 2011. In fact, before independence, he was the leader of South Sudan since 2005, known as the "Chairman of the Southern Sudan Autonomous Government", for 18 years.

Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

Before taking power, Kiir was a soldier and participated in the first Sudanese civil war in the late 60s of the last century, and the second Sudanese civil war in the 80s ~ 2005. The two civil wars lasted very long, killing at least 2.4 million people and injuring and displacing countless others.

One will achieve ten thousand bones. Kiir continued to demonstrate excellent military command skills, rising from an ordinary soldier to the supreme commander of the South Sudanese armed forces.

We know that before the division of the country, Sudan's oil resources were mainly concentrated in South Sudan, and the country's finances were very dependent on the export of oil. South Sudan has proven oil reserves of about 4.7 billion barrels and recoverable reserves of about 2.26 billion barrels. However, South Sudan is not close to the sea, and oil exports need to pass through North Sudan.

Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

Therefore, there has always been a contradiction between South Sudan and North Sudan in the distribution of oil benefits. This, coupled with contradictions such as religion, tribe, language, and foreign interference, led to the eventual disintegration of Sudan.

Kiir played a central role in South Sudan's independence process. In October 2009, Kiir called on South Sudanese to actively participate in the independence referendum and voted in favor. He said that whether to be a "second-class citizen" of Sudan or a "free man" of his own country, the people should make the right choice.

Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

In the end, about 98.83% of South Sudanese voters voted in favor, making South Sudan officially separate from Sudan and become an independent sovereign state. However, 12 years after independence, South Sudan remains one of the poorest countries in the world, with a per capita GDP of just $328 (IMF data), the second lowest in the world.

The fundamental problem is that South Sudan's economy is too dependent on oil. After independence, South Sudan's oil exports mainly passed through Sudan, and this key contradiction remained unchanged. Sudanese in the north always want to make more profits from South Sudan's oil trade.

Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

In addition, there are major issues between South Sudan and Sudan, such as the demarcation of borders and the ownership of the Abyei region, and fierce border clashes have broken out on many occasions.

To make matters worse, in December 2013~February 2020, there was a civil war that lasted for more than six years in South Sudan. According to Wikipedia, the civil war has resulted in the deaths of some 383,000 people, 1.5 million people fleeing South Sudan, and more than 2.1 million people losing their homes.

Pee your pants in public! What is the experience of the president of South Sudan, who has been in power for 18 years?

South Sudan's first vice president, Riek Machar, was the initiator of the civil war in an attempt to overthrow President Kiir. The civil war has been described as an ethnic conflict because Kiir is a Dinka and Machar is a Nuer, and the conflict between the two ethnic groups has a long history.

In general, South Sudan is a country with internal and external troubles, and although it has relatively rich oil resources, its export routes are in the hands of others. To serve as a leader in such a country, even with extremely high political wisdom is not enough, and a little "time and place are right" for the turnaround. #头条创作挑战赛 #

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