Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

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...

President Salva Kiir Mayardit and the SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon met face-to-face for hours into the night in Addis Ababa on 3 March but failed to agree on key points...

That meant that Vice-President James Wani Igga an Equatorian and a liberation war hero would be under SPLM-IO leader Riek Machar...

This comes amid scepticism about a ceasefire deal signed on 2 February with rebels led by sacked Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

Apart from clandestine aid from Khartoum regional support for Riek Machar has dwindled in recent months...

A tentative step forward has been made with a political reunification deal signed in Arusha on 21 January between President Salva Kiir Mayardit and his sacked Deputy Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose forces have been at war since December 2013 and Deng Alor Kuol for the former detainees (AC Vol 55 No 9 The third eleven enters the contest)...

Riek Machar's SPLA-in-Opposition is largely comprised of Nuer members of the armed forces thanks to the SPLA's absorption of pro-Khartoum militias from 2006...

The Khartoum government is yet to react to the circulation of what purport to be detailed minutes of a meeting on 31 August of top security and military officers in which they discuss arming Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's rebels in South Sudan supporting armed jihadists in Africa and the Middle East and destroying crops in South Kordofan to starve out rebel supporters...

If Khartoum's support for Riek Machar's forces is further confirmed that will complicate the tortuous peace negotiations with the Juba government and invite censure from the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development which is mediating in the civil war (AC Vol 55 No 18 A deadline for the deadline)...

Unsurprisingly allies of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose episodic alliances with the Khartoum regime have dented his credibility in South Sudan have dismissed the documents as a fake produced by President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government...

The balance of opinion in IGAD has tilted towards President Salva Kiir Mayardit's government and is more sceptical about Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's position...

Salva and those of the presidents of Djibouti Kenya and Uganda the Prime Minister of Somalia and the First Vice-President of Sudan but the space for Riek Machar remains blank...

Nuba particularly resent SPLA-IO leader Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon because his previous split with the SPLM/A in 1991 cut them off from the rest of the SPLA for over a decade almost leading to their defeat...