New HSBA Situation Update on Sarah Cleto’s precarious tenure over Western Bahr el Ghazal, South Sudan

GENEVA—Sarah Cleto’s tenure as the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLA-IO) governor of Western Bahr el Ghazal is in trouble. Despite her grassroots popularity, members of the opposition are calling for her removal. Attempts to replace Cleto, however, have been stalled by internal power struggles—highlighting the complexities of Western Bahr el Ghazal’s ethnic politics.

All Alone in the Governor’s Mansion: Sarah Cleto’s Travails in Western Bahr el Ghazal—a new Situation Update from the Small Arms Survey’s Human Security Baseline Assessment for Sudan and South Sudan (HSBA) project—discusses Sarah Cleto’s governorship, and how the politicization of ethnicity drives tensions within Western Bahr el Ghazal.

• Read All Alone in the Governor’s Mansion: Sarah Cleto’s Travails in Western Bahr el Ghazal

For more, check out:

• And Everything Became War': Warrap State since the Signing of the R-ARCSS—an in-depth report on current political and conflict dynamics in Warrap, a neighbour of Western Bahr el Ghazal.
• The Human Security Baseline Assessment (HSBA) project page
• South Sudan outputs in our Resource Library

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• New Blog Post: Driven into their Arms: Exploring Gendered Motivations of Violent Extremism
• New HSBA Situation Update on Rin Tueny Mabor’s governance of Lakes state, South Sudan
• New HSBA Situation Update on Abyei​​​​​​​