James Wani Igga

The United States is unhappy with the new system as Secretary of State John Kerry told Vice-President James Wani Igga during his Washington trip last month...

Decisions in many other areas including appointing state governors army officers and independent commissions and declaring war or a state of emergency are to be decided through 'consultation and mutual agreement' by the President FVP and Vice-President (James Wani Igga)...

In the transitional government it relegates the Vice-President currently James Wani Igga behind a nominee of the opposition forces (led by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon) to the new role of first vice-president: agreed in principle but division of executive powers between president and first vice-president remains contentious...

That meant that Vice-President James Wani Igga an Equatorian and a liberation war hero would be under SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar...

More immediately Salva's current VP James Wani Igga refused on 2 September to step down again for a man who had already changed sides twice...

The government declared from the start that Riek had launched a coup attempt on 15 December a view still widely believed in Juba and repeated by Vice-President James Wani Igga on a visit to Torit on 8 January...

The security services were ‘not doing their job well ' said another SPLA veteran Speaker James Wani Igga a contender for Vice-President...

All this raised Salva's ‘clean government' credentials though power politics may have had as much to do with the sackings as corruption or financial mismanagement: some suggest Kosti Manibe's ‘crime' was to back Assembly Speaker James Wani Igga as the next leader...

They include National Legislative Assembly Speaker James Wani Igga a Bari from Equatoria with a sound wartime military reputation; Lieutenant General James Hoth Mai the popular Nuer Chief of General Staff; and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior (aka Rebecca Garang) former Presidential Advisor on Gender and widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior...

Other top appointments are also a balancing act: Parliamentary Speaker James Wani Igga a Bari from Central Equatoria; party Secretary General Pa'gan Amum Okech a Shilluk from Upper Nile; Interior Minister Alison Manani Magaya a Zande from Western Equatoria; and Foreign Minister Nhial Deng Nhial a fellow Dinka from Salva's home state Warrap...

James Wani Igga declared 'I want to condemn El Beshir over his decision on the international observers that it is million times wrong...