Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

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...

January's reconciliation between John Garang and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon means renewed cooperation among their forces in the oil areas...

Wal Duany's hopes were dashed almost immediately by the return to the south of Riek Machar in February and his formation of the South Sudan Democratic Front (SSDF)...

Earlier that month the Sudan People's Liberation Army of Colonel John Garang de Mabior had reconciled with the Sudan People's Democratic Front under Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (see Box)...

Beside Garang on the podium sat his old adversary Riek Machar who served the National Islamic Front for ten years being in government for four of those under its 'Peace from Within' programme...

Following the 7 January pact between SPLA boss John Garang and Riek Machar (AC Vol 43 No 1) his ex-deputy who had gone over to the government came an attack on Lundin Petroleum's installations in Muglad Basin...

Mohamed Osman marked Independence Day on 1 January by slamming the NIF (which people still suspect he will join) while on 7 January Garang and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon signed a peace pact after a decade of mutual slaughter...