At least 11 people are dead and 16 others have been injured after an attack on football fans in South Sudan, local media report. A gunman opened fire on a crowd watching an English Premier League game near the town of Juba. South Sudan’s National Courier newspaper said the gunman had escaped despite a “prompt … Read more
This used to be South Sudan’s second largest city, a bustling center on the White Nile River of more than 120,000 people, many employed in the oil fields nearby. Today Malakal is rubble and almost entirely deserted by civilians, a city emptied by three years of civil war and now by new rounds of fighting. … Read more
South Sudan’s former Vice-President Riek Machar says he is “broke” and struggling to pay rent for the house where his family lives in Kenya, the Nairobi-based The Star newspaper reports. His comments, in an interview with the newspaper, came after Kenyan lawmakers threatened to introduce a parliamentary motion, demanding that his family be kicked out … Read more
Riek Machar, who was sacked as South Sudan’s vice-president in July after heavy clashes in the capital, Juba, is in South Africa to receive medical treatment, according his spokesman, quoted by Reuters news agency. The former rebel leader had been receiving treatment in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, after sustaining a leg injury. Mr Machar, whose … Read more
South Sudan’s rebel leader on Monday accused President Salva Kiir of wanting to turn the country into an “ethnic state” for his Dinka group. Riek Machar’s statement, obtained by The Associated Press, accuses the government of pushing ethnic groups into fighting. Machar is Nuer. The civil war that erupted in December 2013 between supporters of … Read more
South Sudanese ousted vice president, Dr Riek Machar, is increasingly becoming a pariah in the region with Ethiopia now declining to give him asylum, while Sudan is restricting his political activities. Dr Machar — who is currently in Khartoum after fleeing Juba on July 11— has been denied asylum in Ethiopia where he had hoped … Read more