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Vol 66 No 18

Published 12th September 2025


South Sudan

Salva and Riek risk a return to war

Both sides are breaching the 2018 peace accord but are shielded by oil deals with China and Russia

The latest attempt at a peace deal between factions loyal to the country’s rival veteran leaders – an internationally brokered agreement signed in 2018 – is falling apart after its terms have been breached several times by both sides. 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.

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