南蘇丹12月投票前任命新選舉委員會主席

奈洛比，9月16日（路透社）——南蘇丹總統薩爾瓦・基爾（Salva Kiir）已撤換選舉委員會主席，距離這個國家自2011年獨立以來首次全國大選僅約三個月。NAIROBI, Sept 16 (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has replaced the head of the election commission, only about three months before the first national election since independence in 2011.

• 國營廣播公司週二宣讀總統公告指出，選舉委員會祕書長加布里爾・博爾・鄧（Gabriel Bol Deng）將接替阿貝德內戈・阿科克・卡庫爾（Abednego Akok Kacuol）。總統未說明更換理由。• The president, in an announcement read out by the state-owned broadcaster on Tuesday, said commission Secretary General Gabriel Bol Deng will replace Abednego Akok Kacuol. He gave no reason for the change.

• 南蘇丹自2018年一項協議終結長達五年的衝突後維持和平；該場衝突造成數千人喪生。不過，族群間暴力仍頻繁發生。• South Sudan has been at peace since a 2018 agreement ended a five-year conflict during which thousands of people were killed. Still, inter-communal violence is frequent.

• 總統與國會選舉預定於12月22日舉行。• Presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled for December 22.

• 南蘇丹倡議組織「促進進步社區賦權組織」（Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation）執行長艾德蒙・亞卡尼（Edmond Yakani）表示，在選舉如此接近之際更換主席，恐怕會削弱選民信心。• Edmond Yakani, executive director of Community Empowerment for Progress Organisation, a South Sudan activist group, said the replacement this close to the election risks eroding voter confidence.

• 他告訴路透社：「在選前三個月開除選舉委員會主席是一場災難，但這也牽涉到政治領導層究竟如何看待選舉。」• "Firing a chairperson of an electoral commission three months before the election is a disaster, but this goes together with what is the political leadership thinking about the elections," he told Reuters.

• 上週，聯合國南蘇丹人權委員會（United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan）表示，南蘇丹缺乏舉行和平且可信選舉所需的保障與條件。• Last week, the United Nations Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said the country lacked safeguards and conditions for peaceful and credible elections.

（喬治・奧布盧察撰稿；克里斯多福・庫欣編輯）(Writing by George Obulutsa; Editing by Christopher Cushing)