Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

The attack in Jonglei by Gatdet's fighters who had theoretically been integrated into the national armed forces the Sudan People's Liberation Army appears to have been triggered by the 15 December mutiny by SPLA fighters loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon who had lost many of his powers in July after publicly challenging President Salva Kiir Mayardit...

That massacre was led by Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's troops and Riek formally apologised for it last year twice...

He first blotted his copybook by joining Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon when he and Lam Akol Ajawin split from John Garang de Mabior's SPLM in 1991 though he later returned to the fold...

The sackings followed Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's announcement that he would challenge Salva for the leadership...

That same month he withdrew powers he had delegated to Riek Machar and postponed the National Reconciliation Conference which Riek headed (AC Vol 54 No 13 Ruling by decree)...

It matters that he is Nuer like the dismissed Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon telephoned his Sudanese counterpart Ali Osman Mohamed Taha whose faction often distances itself from Omer el Beshir's (AC Vol 54 No 9 Rifts in the regime)...

President Salva has grown very sensitive to criticism clamping down on the media and attempting to reduce the influence of his immediate colleagues particularly Vice-President Riek Machar...

‘The big question is how come Kiir felt strong enough to reshuffle the military and to take on Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a couple of months ago but cannot get a grip on his ministers' said one Western source...

Although Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon would make a very willing and potentially able successor his history of accommodation with Khartoum and the legacy of inter-ethnic conflict triggered by his 1991 revolt against John Garang means his appointment to the top job would likely split the SPLM...

Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon who with his Nuer forces had split from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/Army (SPLM/A) in 1991 spent two weeks touring Jonglei last month...

At a ministerial summit in Mombasa on 21 November Kenya’s Vice-President Stephen Kalonzo Musyoka assured Southern Sudan’s Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon that the Lamu port and corridor would go ahead...

• John Luk Jok Justice (no change; earlier Oil): lawyer; GUN Jonglei Nuer joined Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin in 1991 split but returned to SPLM; now seen as a force behind SPLM dominance; critics blame him for Transitional Constitution’s centralising powers; former SPLM representative London when Peckham resident...