Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

That appears to be the main reason for Museveni's abrupt departure from the meeting in Addis Ababa before rebel Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement Secretary General Pa'gan Amum Okiech had signed on 17 August...

The 17 August deal removes any mention of that or international participation in security and a proposed 195-man guard for Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the nominal leader of rebel forces Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon were due to meet for face­-to-face talks on 13 August in Addis Ababa before the 17 August 'final deadline' declared by the mediator the Inter­-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)...

The government was demanding 70% of national posts (AC Vol 54 No 16 A power struggle not a coup) according to Gatdet Dak who was Spokesman for Riek Machar when he was Vice­-President...

They 'denounced and disowned' Riek as SPLM­-IO Chairman and rejected 'any peace agreement that includes President Kiir and Dr Riek Machar in the leadership of the Transitional Government of National Unity (TGONU)...

In the transitional government it relegates the Vice-President currently James Wani Igga behind a nominee of the opposition forces (led by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon) to the new role of first vice-president: agreed in principle but division of executive powers between president and first vice-president remains contentious...

How much President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon are listening is another matter but many of their followers (or former followers) certainly are...

The bigger failure on the part of the AU and the USA is the failure to secure an end to the civil war in South Sudan one recognised in Obama's caustic criticism of the indifference of President Salva Kiir Mayardit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon to the suffering of their own people...

The government recaptured Malakal in early July but Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's fighters immediately seized the key Thar Jath oil installations south of Bentiu...

Leaders gave Salva Kiir vocal support in his fight against Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and resolved that the Troika (Norway United Kingdom United States) should play no mediation role...

Mesfin Ethiopia's former Foreign Minister maintained that 90% of differences between the two sides – the governing Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's SPLM-in-Opposition – had been resolved but conceded that 'some issues are still a deal breaker...

Shortage of funds may have more impact than mediation or sanctions on both President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government and the rebels led by his former Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (AC Vol 56 No 5 A test of everyone's will)...

While Juba's coffers are practically empty Riek Machar is now seeking funds from INGOs we hear...

Investigating armaments used by 'Islamic State' in Kobane Syria it found weapons with exactly the same markings including obliterated serial numbers as some used by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's and other Khartoum-supplied rebels in South Sudan...

It is these leading officials including President Salva Kiir Mayardiit and sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon that the AU and the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) are trying to corral into a power-sharing deal to end the fighting that has cost over 50 000 lives in the past 15 months...