Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon

The incidents embarrassed the Southern government whose Vice-President Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon takes a leading role in the talks...

The truce brokered by chief mediator and South Sudanese Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon has largely held...

The UN Security Council and aid agencies are taking a more pragmatic approach to the talks between the Ugandan government and the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in South Sudan's capital Juba despite initial scepticism over South Sudan Vice-President Riek Machar's peace initiative...

It underlined the gulf between the two sides - and the LRA's awareness that it can get away with a lot in these breakthrough negotiations arranged by Southern Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and held in its capital Juba...

He announced that his Vice-President Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon had met LRA chief Joseph Kony - probably Africa's most reclusive rebel...

There are complaints that Riek Machar's mediation efforts which apparently began in November failed to coordinate with Bigombe's undermining them...

In 1991 Nuer fighters loyal to Commander Riek Machar in what was then a breakaway SPLA faction the SPLA-United slaughtered around 2 000 civilians from the Bor Dinka the late SPLM/A chief John Garang's ethnic group...

A score of field commanders including the main Messalit commander Khamis Abdullah issued a statement signed by veteran politician Sharif Harir opposing 'peace from within' (a reference to the NIF's success in coopting the Southern rebels Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon and Lam Akol in the 1990s)...

Lam has jumped many ships breaking first (alongside Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon) with John Garang de Mabior then with Riek then from the NIF then from the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM now of Darfur)...

We hear that Second Vice-President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha the regime's strongman has been offering the Darfur fighters an assistant presidency - an NIF tactic used on both Riek Machar and Mubarak Abdullahi el Fadl el Mahdi both elevated and later dropped...

The SSDF was created under 1997's anti-SPLM Khartoum Peace Agreement that coopted Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon...

Gatlwak is from Riek Machar's Nasir fiefdom with a Nuer mother and a father from the Bor Dinka...

On advice from Riek Machar and Lam Akol Ajawin former SSDF militia commanders who had redefected to the SPLM Salva agreed to appoint three SSDF members to the Southern assembly...

It's not forgotten that in the late 1990s Matiep who hails from the area drove out a government appointed by Riek Machar (then working for Khartoum) and headed by Taban...

Lam is also vulnerable as he has often switched sides - from SPLA to Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (1991) to the Frankfurt Declaration with Hassan Abdullah el Turabi's friend Ali el Haj Mohamed (1992) to the Khartoum Peace Agreement with the NIF (1997) back to SPLM (2003)...