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...

Rumours spread this week in Bentiu that Southern Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon was on his way there to talk to Governor Taban Deng Gai who was said to be ‘leading a revolt' against the GOSS...

’ The problem with this claim is that the NCP has armed anti-Sudan People’s Liberation Movement fighters since at least 1991 when Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol Ajawin broke with the SPLM and the NCP was still the National Islamic Front...

Lam split from the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in 1991 with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon but is now theoretically at peace with the SPLM (AC passim)...

In the fighting that ensued Athor attacked Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon’s breakaway SPLA-Nasir faction commanding forces loyal to the SPLA leader Colonel John Garang de Mabior under the leadership of Lt...

Athor was furious when Riek Machar (now GOSS Vice-President) rejoined the SPLA in 2002...