On the eve of its first anniversary, South Sudan’s unity government is in trouble, with the country’s fragile peace process in doubt and old rivalries again threatening a return to war. President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar, for years on opposing sides of the battlefield, formed a coalition government on February 22, 2020 after nearly a year of delay and haggling along with international pressure. The agreement to share power was born from a truce that ended five years of bloodshed in the world’s newest country that cost nearly 400,000 lives and drove four million people from the…
