Former South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar is due to make a rare visit to th...
FILE PHOTO: South Sudan's ex-vice president and former rebel leader Riek Machar is pictured during an interview with Reuters in Rome, Italy, April 12, 2019. REUTERS/Yara Nardi.
The two men signed a pact a year ago to end a civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people, displaced a third of the population and wrecked the economy. “The meeting aims at discussing the outstanding issues related to the implementation of the R-ARCSS with President Kiir and other head of the parties to the agreement,” Machar’s director for information, Puok Both Baluang, said.South Sudan split away from Sudan in 2011 after decades of war but plunged into its own conflict at the end of 2013 after Kiir sacked Machar as vice president.
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