Its contract organised by his deputy Riek Machar is being investigated...
The mediating team led by South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whom the rebels distrust will be widened to include delegates from South Africa Mozambique Kenya Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Talks organised by the Government of South Sudan and its Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon are stuck in semantics but another effort by Ugandan politician Norbert Mao from northern Gulu District is making progress...
Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon defected from the late John Garang de Mabior's SPLA in 1991 and was soon co-opted into the NIF regime...
Khartoum pursues this strategy through several proxies: the (Northern) Popular Defence Forces (PDF) Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) nomadic tribes and Northerners in Southern towns whom it has armed and sometimes settled for the purpose the 'White Army' (the Nuer cattle camp-based group originally organised by Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon when he first joined the government camp) and assorted armed civilian groups...
Previously Salva Kiir and GOSS Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (who has mediated many oil deals in the South) had been reluctant to give ground to Khartoum because they believed their government was cheated of its equal share of revenue under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement...
The incidents embarrassed the Southern government whose Vice-President Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon takes a leading role in the talks...
The truce brokered by chief mediator and South Sudanese Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon has largely held...
Vol 47 No 17 |
- SUDAN
- UGANDA
The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba despite initial scepticism over South Sudan Vice-President Riek Machar's peace initiative...
Vol 47 No 15 |
- SUDAN
- UGANDA
It underlined the gulf between the two sides - and the LRA's awareness that it can get away with a lot in these breakthrough negotiations arranged by Southern Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and held in its capital Juba...