SPLM Chairman appoints Jemma Nunu Kumba SPLM Deputy Secretary-General replacing Ann Itto Leonardo.
In a decree read over South Sudan Television on Wednesday evening, Salva Kiir Mayardit assigned Nunu Kumba to act as the Secretary-General.
She will recommend members to be appointed to other positions of the SPLM party.
Salva earlier on dissolved the SPLM executive committee.
The order and the decree are effective from Wednesday.