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South Sudan

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

Date of Birth: 1953
Place of Birth: Leer, South Sudan


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As elections arrive, the opposition shuns Omer

Southern Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon jumped the gun by announcing the decision taken by the SPLM Political Bureau that afternoon before the SPLM had informed its NCF allies said an SPLM source...


Southern leaders compete for a new state

The most serious conflict pits Lieutenant General Salva and his close confidants including Unity State Governor Taban Deng Gai against Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lt...

This dispute draws in the most senior people in the government and also follows the traditional rivalries between the two largest Nilotic ethnic groups the Dinka and Nuer: Salva is Dinka while Riek Machar and Paulino Matip are Nuer...


Three leaders who count in the South

Although the GOSS is wracked by mismanagement and corruption and he has proved uninterested in his (token) role as GNU Vice-President Southerners widely see him as a more trustworthy leader than Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and other aspirants...

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon: GOSS Vice-President; Dok Nuer from Leer southern Unity State...


Oil - after independence

The CCP wants party-to-party ties with the SPLM and had mooted such cooperation with Chairman Salva Kiir Mayardit in 2007 and Deputy Chairman Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon in 2009...


Khartoum pressures Southern Sudan over oil

Energy Minister John Luk Jok (a lawyer former SPLM London representative and short-term member of Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon's breakaway faction in the early 1990s) sits on the Nilepet board and is therefore responsible both for selling oil and regulating its sale...


Kony causes trouble again

On 30 June Southern Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon ordered the Ugandan People's Defence Forces out of the country accusing the UPDF of kidnapping and killing a South Sudanese man in a 14 June operation...

Riek Machar told the Juba Parliament that an investigation by the peace process's Ceasefire Monitoring Team had shown that the UPDF not the LRA as originally thought had attacked Nyongwa Western Equatoria on 19 June abducting and killing Jino Moga Mandara...

However Riek Machar took a different line...


The peace deal that wasn't

Matsanga had convinced South Sudan’s Vice-President Riek Machar the chief mediator that the elusive rebel leader would turn up...

The diplomats led by Tim Shortley Senior Advisor on Conflict to the United States’ Assistant Secretary of State Jendayi Frazer were furious that neither Riek Machar nor Joaquim Chissano the former Mozambican President who is now UN Special Envoy for the LRA had spoken to Kony since October last year...


The peace process teams

The mediators Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon South Sudan’s Vice-President has been the chief mediator since the talks began in Juba in 2006...


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