South Sudan's President Salva Kiir says the country's long-delayed elections will be held next year as planned.
President Kiir says he would run for re-election in the polls, the first since the country gained independence.
No other candidate has declared their candidacy but First Vice-President Riek Machar is also expected to run.
Mr Kiir has been president since independence in 2011 after a long-running civil war.
But conflict continued even after independence - a civil war broke out in 2013 when the president fell out with Mr Machar.