South Sudan Leaders Extend Government's Mandate Until 2025.

The conditions of the peace agreement in the oil-producing EastAfrican nation, implemented in 2020, will remain in place untilFebruary 2025, including the power-sharing government withSalva Kiir as president and former rebel leader Riek Machar as hisdeputy. While the peace agreement helped end a civil war that started in2013 -- two years after South Sudan became independent fromSudan -- it's continued to face widespread communal violence. [Extracted from the article]