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South Sudan

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

Date of Birth: 1953
Place of Birth: Leer, South Sudan


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Freedom unfledged

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...


Running the South

Three deputy chairmen: SPLA Chief of Staff Salva Kiir Mayardiit (Bahr el Ghazal); Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (Upper Nile); Cdr...


Oil bubble

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...


Armed and angry

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)...


Peace in our time

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...


Coordinates

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...


Calling the shots at Machakos

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...


The fire does not cease

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


Pals with Pal

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)...


Oilfield, battlefield

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)...


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