US EditionSouth Sudan opposition calls on citizens to defend their country after leader indicted
The opposition urges national service to defend sovereignty after Machar's indictment on charges including murder and terrorism, escalating fears of renewed conflict in South Sudan.
- The SPLM/A-IO urged supporters to mobilize days after Riek Machar's indictment, with acting chairman Nathaniel Oyet asking them in a Monday statement to `report for national service` and use `all means available` to defend South Sudan.
- On Thursday, prosecutors charged Riek Machar, former First Vice President, with murder, treason and crimes against humanity; Machar had been under house arrest since March after a militia linked to the White Army assaulted a garrison, killing more than 250 soldiers.
- SPLM/A-IO officials rejected the charges and said they will not participate in the trial or mount legal defences, accusing President Salva Kiir of `dictatorship` and `state capture` in an online declaration signed by acting chairman Oyet Nathaniel Pierino.
- The indictment has raised political tensions and alarmed the international community as it deepens a stalemate threatening the 2018 peace agreement.
- The longer-term picture shows South Sudan's 2013 civil war claimed about 400,000 lives amid a humanitarian crisis, while elections postponed to 2026 raise United Nations concerns about regression this year.
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South Sudan opposition calls for mobilization of forces for ‘regime change’
JUBA: South Sudan’s opposition on Monday called for an armed mobilization to carry out “regime change” in response to plans to put its leader on trial for treason and crimes against humanity. A fragile power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, Riek Machar, has been unraveling for months, threatening to return the young nation to a civil war that
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South Sudan opposition calls on citizens to defend their country after leader indicted
South Sudan’s largest opposition movement has asked its supporters to mobilize to defend their country, days after longtime opposition leader Riek Machar was indicted and suspended from his position as First Vice President.
South Sudan opposition calls armed mobilisation after Machar trial
South Sudan’s fragile peace unravelled further Monday as opposition leaders called for armed mobilisation after their leader was charged with treason. Riek Machar, the long-time rival of President Salva Kiir, was stripped of his vice-presidential post and confined under house arrest. Authorities accuse him of ordering an ethnic militia attack in March on a military base, killing more than 250 soldiers. Machar’s faction denied the charges, brandi…
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