Tag: Riek Machar
Kiir and Machar: insights into South Sudan’s strongmen
Salva Kiir and Riek Machar loom large over South Sudan’s recent history. And they will keep holding the future of the young nation in...
ISS: Kiir and Machar kiss and make up yet again
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir Mayardit and Vice-President Riek Machar shook hands this week on yet another agreement to revive the chronically faltering peace...
South Sudan’s Machar says ‘peace spoilers’ backed his removal as party...
South Sudan’s first Vice President Riek Machar has accused rival military leaders who announced he had been deposed as party and armed forces leader...
ISS: Can South Sudan change its approach to politics?
The formation of South Sudan’s new unity government on 22 February is a major milestone in recent efforts to restore peace in that country....
Political detainees released in South Sudan
South Sudan freed five political detainees and prisoners of war, although none appeared to be senior rebel officials, a category of captive...
ISS: Sanctions prove key to ending South Sudan’s civil war
Cautious optimism surrounds efforts to end the brutal five-year civil war in South Sudan. Recent progress in the peace process has led...
South Sudan president Kiir grants Machar, other rebels amnesty
President Salva Kiir granted a general amnesty to rebels in South Sudan's civil war, including his former deputy Riek Machar, as a...
South Sudan rivals sign peace agreement in Khartoum
South Sudan's president signed a peace agreement with rebels on Wednesday including a ceasefire to start in 72 hours, Sudan's foreign minister...
No to Machar in South Sudan government
South Sudan offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government, but ruled out rebel leader Riek Machar, saying they "had...
ISS: New hopes for South Sudan’s peace process
Nearly two years since their last meeting, rival leaders President Salva Kiir and Dr Riek Machar met face to face on 20...
Call for Machar to be released from house arrest
The East African bloc IGAD wants South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar released from house arrest in South Africa as soon as...
SA advisor to South Sudan rebels could face death penalty
A South African on trial in South Sudan could face the death penalty if found guilty of charges including conspiracy to overthrow...
South Sudan rebels wants compensation before releasing pilots
South Sudanese rebels are holding two Kenyan pilots and will not release them until compensation is paid to the family of a...
South Sudan rebel Machar declines to renounce violence – mediator
Exiled South Sudanese opposition figure Riek Machar declined to renounce violence or declare a unilateral ceasefire and instead demanded new peace talks...
South Sudan’s Machar in South Africa for medical treatment
South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar is in South Africa to receive medical treatment.
"Dr Riek Machar arrived on Wednesday and his period...
DR Congo demands deportation of South Sudan rebels by U.N. mission
Authorities from the Democratic Republic of Congo have issued an ultimatum to the country's U.N. peacekeeping mission to deport South Sudanese rebels...
US condemns South Sudan opposition leader’s call for renewed war
The US State Department on Wednesday strongly condemned comments by South Sudan's opposition leader calling for a return to war against the...
South Sudan urges Sudan, neighbours not to let opponent launch rebellion
South Sudan's government urged Sudan and regional states on Tuesday not to let opposition leader Riek Machar launch a new rebellion, after...
South Sudan’s opposition figure ‘not dead politically’ – U.N.
South Sudan's exiled opposition figure Riek Machar "is not dead politically," United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said on Friday as the...
Machar should not go back to South Sudan as deputy president...
The United States does not believe South Sudan's former Deputy President Riek Machar should return to his former position in its government,...
Photos show South Sudan rebel leader in apparent good health
Supporters of South Sudanese opposition leader Riek Machar have released pictures showing him in apparent good health, more than a month after...
Machar leaves hospital, will stay in Khartoum
South Sudan opposition leader, Riek Machar, has left hospital but will remain in Khartoum for some time, Sabt Makkouk, an aide accompanying...
South Sudan opposition leader in Khartoum for treatment, Sudan says
South Sudan opposition leader, Riek Machar, is in Khartoum for medical treatment, a Sudanese minister told the state news agency SUNA on...
Machar seeks safety in DR Congo
South Sudan's opposition leader, Riek Machar, is in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, the United Nations said on Thursday, several weeks...
Nine killed in renewed fighting in South Sudan
At least nine people were killed in South Sudan over the weekend in renewed clashes between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir...
Kiir names new vice president for South Sudan
South Sudan President Salva Kiir replaced his vice president and rival Riek Machar on Monday, a move that could potentially undermine last...
Split in South Sudan opposition threatens more turmoil
A rift appeared in one of South Sudan's two main rival groups on Friday, raising the prospect of further turmoil after months...
South Sudan vice president sacks minister after “defection”
South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar has fired a minister who he said had defected to his long-time rival President Salva Kiir's...
South Sudan vice president sacks minister after “defection”
South Sudan Vice President Riek Machar has fired a minister who he said had defected to his long-time rival President Salva Kiir's...
South Sudan president asks vice president to return
South Sudan's president wants his vice president to return to the capital to try to salvage a peace agreement jeopardised by fighting...
South Sudan vice president leaves Juba, not seeking war
South Sudan's vice president has withdrawn with his troops to outside of Juba but is not planning for war, his spokesman said...
South Sudan leaders order ceasefire as civil war fears grow
South Sudan's president and vice president ordered their loyalists to cease hostilities on Monday after days of fighting threatened to plunge the...
Heavy fighting in South Sudan, risk of civil war returning
Heavy fighting involving tanks and helicopters raged in South Sudan on Monday between troops loyal to the president and those backing the...
Fighting flares again in South Sudan capital after U.N. demand for...
Heavy fighting erupted again in South Sudan's capital on Monday a day after the U.N. Security Council told rivals President Salva Kiir...
Zuma calls for calm in South Sudan as more than 270...
South African president Jacob Zuma at the weekend expressed "great concern" about the re-escalation of violence in South Sudan, which according to...
South Sudan’s Machar sworn in as VP, president calls for reconciliation
South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was sworn in as first vice president on Tuesday, hours after he returned to the capital...
U.S. accuses South Sudan sides of blocking peace, warns over support
Washington accused both sides in South Sudan's two-year conflict of blocking peace efforts and protested, rebels said, by pulling funding for a...
South Sudan and rebels in weaponry wrangle over Machar’s return
South Sudan's government and rebels are wrangling over weaponry and therefore still at odds over the terms for allowing rebel leader Riek...
South Sudan and rebels say deal reached for Machar’s return
South Sudan's government and rebels said on Wednesday a deal had been reached to let rebel leader Riek Machar return to the...
South Sudan peace deal at risk over rebel leader’s delay: monitors
South Sudan's government and rebels on Wednesday accused each other of hindering rebel leader Riek Machar's return to the capital to form...
U.N.concerned by Machar delay in return to South Sudan capital
The United Nations Security Council expressed serious concern on Tuesday over the failure of South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar to return...
South Sudan’s opposition leader Machar to return to Juba on April...
South Sudan's opposition leader Riek Machar said on Thursday he would return to the capital Juba on April 18, the first time...
South Sudan sides trade barbs over peace progress after sanctions threat
South Sudan's government said on Thursday that a threat of U.S. sanctions if the country fails to deliver on a peace deal...
South Sudan opposition forces allowed back into capital – monitor
Troops allied with South Sudan's Riek Machar, the former rebel leader and rival to President Salva Kiir, will deploy to the capital...
South Sudan rivals talk peace while killing civilians – claim
South Sudan's warring government and opposition are killing, abducting and displacing civilians and destroying property despite conciliatory rhetoric by both sides, the...
South Sudan’s Machar on a private visit to SA
The Department of International Relations and Cooperation has dismissed media reports that South Sudan's newly appointed First Vice President of Riek Machar...
South Sudan rebel leader wants soldiers out in further hurdle to...
South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar said on Friday he wanted soldiers cleared out of the capital before he returns to take...
South Sudan president re-appoints rival under peace deal
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has re-appointed his rival Riek Machar as vice president, a decree said on Thursday, the culmination of...
Russia opposes South Sudan arms embargo, sanctions on leaders
Russia said on Friday it was opposed to placing a United Nations arms embargo on South Sudan or blacklisting President Salva Kiir...
South Sudan needs arms embargo; leaders killing civilians – UN panel
The United Nations Security Council should place an arms embargo on South Sudan, while the oil-rich country's President Salva Kiir and a...
