17 February 2014
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: xx-small;"><strong><span style="font-size: small;">E</span></strong>xperts disagree about the biggest source of the current crisis in <a href="http://jurist.org/feature/featured/south-sudan/">South Sudan</a>. They cite longstanding ethnic divides, misdirected foreign intervention, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.irinnews.org/printreport.aspx?reportid=99487">tension among factions within the army</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://www.voanews.com/articleprintview/1826903.html">personal animosity between</a>
President Salva Kiir and former-Vice President Riek Machar. Those are
surely the most important and direct factors. But another,
rule-of-law-based cause may be worth adding to the conversation: the
recent constitutional process that, with a deft bait-and-switch from the
2005 interim constitution, concentrated largely unchecked power in the
South Sudanese presidency.
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