An Experience in Military Leadership as a Sector Commander in UN Mission in South Sudan

South Sudan gained its independence on 9 July 2011, after an overwhelming referendum held in January 2011 and became the youngest country of the world. Although this historic event brought an end to Africa’s longest civil war, the celebrations were short-lived, as the power struggle between Mr Salva Kiir Mayardit, the President (belonging to the majority Dinka tribe) and Dr Riek Machar, the First Vice President (from the second-most populous Nuer tribe) started the cycle of violence which even continues to this day, with some other causative factors not restricted only to this confrontation.