Oil-rich South Sudan's former rebel leader and its president will form a un...
JUBA - Oil-rich South Sudan’s former rebel leader and its president will form a unity government by Saturday’s deadline, they announced on Thursday, laying to rest questions over whether the deadline would be pushed back yet again.
The conflict claimed an estimated 400,000 lives, triggered a famine and created Africa’s biggest refugee crisis since the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. President Kiir said he would appoint Machar as first vice president on Friday and provide all the members of the former opposition with protection. Civil war broke out two years later when forces loyal to Kiir and Machar clashed in the capital. Kiir is a Dinka, the country’s largest ethnic group, and Machar comes from the Nuer community.
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