Salva Kiir and the man who is now his deputy as Southern leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...
Riek Machar now in Salva's place as Deputy President of Southern Sudan spoke in Rumbek to thousands of mourners on the eve of Garang's burial (in Juba ostensibly reinstated as the prospective Southern capital)...
Salva Kiir Mayardit's 19 August appointment of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Vice-President of Southern Sudan signals continuity and reconciliation...
Riek Machar is Western Nuer though not popular with all Nuer groups...
Some wonder whether he may assume the military leadership leaving the politics to the next in line Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Western Nuer who broke with Garang in 1991 made 'peace from within' with the Khartoum regime (to the NIF's benefit more than the South's) then reconciled with Garang in 2002...
Focused on the South Southerners welcomed Garang's 19 July appointment of key SPLM leaders Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Nhial Deng Nhial as Southern governors and Salva Kiir Mayardit as Southern Vice-President...
Three deputy chairmen: SPLA Chief of Staff Salva Kiir Mayardiit (Bahr el Ghazal); Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (Upper Nile); Cdr...
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The deal had been negotiated in Southern Sudan by Sudan People's Liberation Movement International Cooperation and Development Minister Costello Garang Riing Lual and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon now once again a deputy to SPLM chief John Garang de Mabior...
Nuer in-fighting has been impressive too especially since the 1991 split in the SPLA led by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (a Dok Nuer now back with Colonel John Garang de Mabior's SPLA/M) and Lam Akol Ajawin (also back in the fold)...
The NIF has signed up to such a referendum before with both Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's former SPLA splinter group and the SPLA/M itself but never under non-African auspices...
In 2000 Gadet deserted Riek Machar's mainly Nuer NIF-allied Sudan People's Democratic Front and joined up with the Sudan People's Liberation Army; in January 2002 Riek's SPDF re-merged with the SPLA; after Gadet re-defected to the government in November the SPLA leader Colonel John Garang sent Riek to fight Gadet in Upper Nile in December...
The idea of accepting some SPLA people into government sounds like an echo of the Khartoum Peace Agreement made in 1993 with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin...