South Sudan’s main opposition party in crisis after government minister named as interim chairman

South Sudan’s opposition movement is deeply divided.

Following the arrest of longtime leader Riek Machar, the political branch of the movement, the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition (SPLM-IO), declared Stephen Kuol Par interim party chairman on Wednesday.

Par was minister for peacebuilding in the South Sudanese government, although he was suspended from his function and his own party following the nomination as interim…