Writing on African Arguments, Jairo Munive, a post-doctoral researcher at the Peace, Risk and Violence Unit- Danish Institute for International Studies, points out that what happened in South Sudan is probably not a coup: 
Akiandika kwenye tovuti ya African Arguments, Jairo Munive (anayeshughulikia utafiti ufuatao mapokezi ya shahada ya uzamivu katika Kitengo cha Amani, Hatari na Vurugu kwenye Taasisi ya Masomo ya Kimataifa) huashiria kwamba huenda yaliyotokea nchini Sudan Kusini siyo mapinduzi: