He has said he would not return to Juba until a regional force is deployed in the capital to help restore calm.
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“He was being pursued constantly since he withdrew from Juba”, said an opposition spokesman, Mabior Garang de Mabior, adding that Machar would soon travel to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa.
The UN Security Council on Friday, August 13, authorized the deployment of a 4,000-strong protection force in South Sudan’s capital, Juba, as part of the United Nations peacekeeping mission and threatened an arms embargo if the government does not cooperate.
South Sudan’s rebel leader and former Vice-President Riek Machar has fled the country following a breakdown in its fragile peace agreement that has seen hundreds of civilians killed.
“We took him from one part of the DRC to another”, Haq said.
“At this precarious stage in South Sudan’s short history, UNICEF fears that a further spike in child recruitment could be imminent”, UNICEF’s deputy executive director Justin Forsyth said in a statement after visiting South Sudan.
“We know with peace comes an end to nutritional challenges, the start of education, an end to cholera, it’s just a game-changer that puts the South Sudanese on the right path.” said James Elder.
“He has been handed over to the DRC authorities”, he said, adding that the transfer was done for “humanitarian reasons” and “with his consent”.
“The update will be about the current events in South Sudan”, Jok said, referring to the title Machar used as the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), the rebel grouping that fought President Salva Kiir’s forces since 2013.
Newly appointed South Sudan First Vice President, Taban Deng Gai (C) speaks during a press conference on August 17, 2016 in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
Mr. Kiir, whose forces now fully control the capital, has sought to consolidate his power, replacing Mr. Machar with Taban Deng Gai and calling for early elections, despite pleas from the global community.
The UN document claims the recruitment drive began shortly after the UN Security Council approved sending 4,000 more peacekeepers to the East African nation last week.
The tensions exist between President Sava Kiir and his former vice president Riek Machar.
Now, Machar’s evacuation from South Sudan casts further doubt on the resumption of a peace process between the two sides.
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Most South Sudanese who are Dinka, the largest ethnic group of South Sudan’s 12.5 million people, support their tribesman Kiir.
