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Namibia: South Sudan vice president arrested, fearing escalation – News

Namibia: South Sudan vice president arrested, fearing escalation – News

Africa Links 24 with Deutsche Welle
Published on 2025-03-28 07:21:37

South Sudan’s first vice president, Riek Machar, was arrested in Juba, his party’s foreign relations committee chairman says in a statement.

Machar’s detention raises fears that the situation in the country could again escalate into a civil war.

The United Nations (UN) calls for all sides to “exercise restraint.”

Machar, a long-time rival to president Salva Kiir, was arrested at his compound in an arrest involving “20 heavily armed vehicles,” Machar’s Sudan

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