The female vice-president slot is seen by some as Rebecca Garang's – the widow of Sudan People's Liberation Movement founder John Garang – to lose...
That it is even within the realm of possibility that Riek Lam Akol and John Garang's widow could be brought into Juba as Vice-Presidents indicates just how little has changed in nearly 30 years...
The split in the SPLA led by by Riek and Lam Akol in 1991 against John Garang opened up a Pandora's box of ethnic bloodletting that begat many of South Sudan's present troubles...