Off the wire
• China Focus: Experts advocate cybersecurity legislation  • Chinese vice president meets Polish foreign minister  • Parcel delivery, ocean shipping major channels for infringing goods: report  • 1st LD: South Sudan's Machar returns to Juba  • Spotlight: Japan's hidden agenda in seeking Obama's visit to Hiroshima  • Chinese company Huawei chosen to preside over Spain's Innovation Committee  • China Red Cross sends relief team to Ecuador  • Police find monkeys in drug addict's house  • Urgent: South Sudan's Machar arrives in Juba  • China urges Japan to "walk the talk" on improving ties  
You are here: 　 Home

2nd LD: South Sudan's Machar returns to Juba

Xinhua, April 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

South Sudan's rebel leader Dr. Riek Machar arrived in Juba on Tuesday, to take up the post of Vice-President as part of the August 2015 peace deal to end more than two years of civil war.

Machar who arrived aboard UN plane amid tight security from the government and opposition forces is expected to be sworn-in later Tuesday to mark the beginning of a 30-month transitional period.

The rebel leader had been expected to return on Monday but instead his Chief of General Staff General Simon Gatwech Dual returned with 195 troops including arsenal of weapons.

Analysts said the return of Machar who is due to form the unity government with President Salva Kiir would not end days of uncertainty over the implementation of the peace deal.

Information Minister Michael Makuei who termed Machar's arrival as a landmark in the implementation of the peace agreement signed last year between him and President Salva Kiir. Endit