09/01/2014
South Sudan in 'wildly unpredictable' crisis
quot;Back to normal? almost,quot; said a junior official rushing past me in a corridor of the presidential offices in Juba. These are wildly unpredictable times in a nation still grappling with an abrupt and spectacular crisis. But there are now some tentative signs that South Sudan#039;s President, Salva Kiir, is gaining the upper hand. quot;Bentiu will be in our hands today. Or maybe tomorrow,quot; said the government#039;s military spokesman, Philip Aguer, as he juggled two phones and a steady stream of saluting officers at his office on the outskirts of Juba. Col Aguer told me he was confident that the two key towns under rebel control, Bentiu, and Bor, would soon fall to a...
