Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

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...

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...

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...

He announced that his Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon had met LRA chief Joseph Kony - probably Africa's most reclusive rebel...

There are complaints that Riek Machar's mediation efforts which apparently began in November failed to coordinate with Bigombe's undermining them...

In 1991 Nuer fighters loyal to Commander Riek Machar in what was then a breakaway SPLA faction the SPLA-United slaughtered around 2 000 civilians from the Bor Dinka the late SPLM/A chief John Garang's ethnic group...

A score of field commanders including the main Messalit commander Khamis Abdullah issued a statement signed by veteran politician Sharif Harir opposing 'peace from within' (a reference to the NIF's success in coopting the Southern rebels Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol in the 1990s)...