New AU Chairperson condemns South Sudan VP detention as return to conflict looms
The new Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) has expressed deep concerns over the detention of the Vice President of South Sudan, Riek Machar, as conflict threatens to engulf the world’s youngest nation barely seven years after the end of a brutal civil war.
Machar's Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) party said South Sudan's defence minister and its chief of national security "forcefully entered" Machar's residence in the capital, Juba, on Wednesday evening to deliver an arrest warrant. The VP was placed u...
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The new Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) has expressed deep concerns over the detention of the Vice President of South Sudan, Riek Machar, as conflict threatens to engulf the world’s youngest nation barely seven years after the end of a brutal civil war.
Machar's Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO) party said South Sudan's defence minister and its chief of national security "forcefully entered" Machar's residence in the capital, Juba, on Wednesday evening to deliver an arrest warrant. The VP was placed u...
Read More: https://www.thereporterethiopia.com/44446/