Also involved is GOSS Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...
Though he (and Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon) broke with the late John Garang de Mabior in 1991 later ending up in the NIF regime's fold the SPLM brought him back to get former dissidents into the big tent...
Salva has effectively demoted two key officials - Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior (AC Vol 46 No 16) - by removing the portfolios under their control although they will both play key roles in the government...
Yet White Nile insisted that it had been awarded rights in unorthodox negotiations with Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon a Nuer leader and Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabior the widow of Colonel John Garang de Mabior...
Its contract organised by his deputy Riek Machar is being investigated...
The mediating team led by South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon whom the rebels distrust will be widened to include delegates from South Africa Mozambique Kenya Tanzania and Congo-Kinshasa...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- EAST AFRICA
Talks organised by the Government of South Sudan and its Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon are stuck in semantics but another effort by Ugandan politician Norbert Mao from northern Gulu District is making progress...
Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon defected from the late John Garang de Mabior's SPLA in 1991 and was soon co-opted into the NIF regime...
Khartoum pursues this strategy through several proxies: the (Northern) Popular Defence Forces (PDF) Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) nomadic tribes and Northerners in Southern towns whom it has armed and sometimes settled for the purpose the 'White Army' (the Nuer cattle camp-based group originally organised by Commander Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon when he first joined the government camp) and assorted armed civilian groups...
Previously Salva Kiir and GOSS Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (who has mediated many oil deals in the South) had been reluctant to give ground to Khartoum because they believed their government was cheated of its equal share of revenue under the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement...
