Six months ago First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon was placed under house arrest – along with his wife interior minister Angelina Jany Teny – after fighting in Upper Nile where Nuer youth from the White Army clashed with river gunboats and helicopter gunships resulting in the death of Lieutenant-General David Majur Dak...

Szlavik has previously represented Riek Machar South Sudan's First Vice-President who has been under house arrest at Kiir's behest since 27 March...

Amid visible signs of worsening ill-health President Salva Kiir Mayardit has been moving to protect his authority and succession just as the house arrest of First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and his wife Angelina Teny on 27 March raises fears of renewed civil war as fresh fighting breaks out (AC Vol 66 No 7 Salva sidelines Riek)...

Arch-rival weakenedRiek Machar's decline has helped Kiir...

Riek Machar wrote to the African Union Peace and Security Council the UN Secretary-General António Guterres and to the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on 23 March to protest Uganda's intervention in South Sudan according to a letter Africa Confidential has seen...

The fate of South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar is more about pure power politics...

Chaos surrounds the fate of South Sudan's First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whose arrest threatens to reignite war...

Originally scheduled for July 2015 the elections were postponed for three years due to clashes between the main protagonists: President Salva Kiir and First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

However that was nullified when Kiir sacked Angelina Teny the wife of Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon as Defence Minister in March 2023 though she was later appointed Interior Minister in October (AC Vol 64 No 12 Forgotten but not gone)...

This has resulted in international scepticism and refusal to participate by opposition leader and First Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and other key players...