South Sudan’s parliament sat Tuesday after nearly two months of having no sitting over disagreements within the SPLM caucus on appointments of parliamentary committees’ chairpersons and their deputies.

The Speaker of the National Parliament Anthony Lino Makana announced the new parliamentary committees’ chairpersons and their deputies during today’s sitting after the disagreements had been resolved by the SPLM leadership in Juba.

He further said the appointments were made in a democratic and transparent manner according to recommendations made by all political parties.

Makana explained that the recent agreement reached in the transitional parliament gives the SPLM party 17 seats, 6 seats for the SPLM-IO and 2 seats for other political parties.

Chapter 1, Article 11.1 of the 2015 peace deal expanded the transitional parliament from 332 members to 400 members, including 50 from SPLM-IO, 1 from SPLM-FD and 17 from other political parties.