South Sudan president fires ministers allied to rival Machar
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JUBA - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir fired six ministers allied to his long-time rival Riek Machar late on Tuesday, widening a political rift in the world's newest nation and drawing threats of more fighting.
Kiir filled the vacant posts, including petroleum minister, with people linked to a breakaway faction of Machar's SPLM-IO party, further aggravating divisions at the top of the oil producer.
Around 60,000 people have fled a fresh outbreak of clashes between the two men's supporters over the past three weeks, the United Nations says, on top of the hundreds of thousands already forced out of their homes by two years of ethnically-charged violence.
