🇸🇸 South Sudan In power: RIGHT
CURRENT MONTH — OCTOBER 2026
LEFT
40
SPLM-IO / Machar camp / civilian peace voices
Governing side
RIGHT
52
Kiir / SPLM-IG / government-military
Governing side
Higher scores indicate more violent speech
Factions scoped to South Sudan political spectrum
Political compass
public mood vs who governs
Authoritarian
Libertarian
Left
Right
Leaning security
Leaning liberty
Leaning left
Leaning right
People
+48 / +76
Politicians
+50 / +87
24-MONTH HISTORY • LEFT VS RIGHT
● LEFT
● RIGHT
│ MAJOR EVENTS
MAJOR EVENTS
July 2025
│
2018 peace-deal collapse and remobilization rhetoric
October 2025
│
Unity-government dismantling and ethnic-army threat rhetoric
January 2026
│
Jonglei offensive and return-to-civil-war rhetoric
August 2026
│
December-election and atrocity-warning rhetoric
September 2026
│
Rival-community clashes in Abyei kill 26 and injure 82
October 2026
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Drone strikes on the Amiet market in Abyei kill more than 200
PUBLIC vs GOVERNMENT
Lines (left axis): public mood (Spectrum) and who held the state that month on the same left–right axis.
Bars (right axis): gap (public − government), autoscaled.
How to read this
Scores (0–100) estimate how often each side’s public discourse calls for violence or issues threats. Left and Right are that country’s own camps, not US parties transplanted abroad. In power is who holds the state that month. Public mood is where people sit left–right and liberty–order; who governs is the office-holders’ ideology (slow-moving). Higher violent-speech scores mean more violent rhetoric. Scores are for entertainment and experimental purposes. Full methodology