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Clashes between South Sudan People’s Défense Forces led by President Salva Kiir and Machar’s opposition party’s armed wing erupted in January. The uptick in violence has triggered widespread fear of a return to the civil war that ended in 2018 with a peace deal.
African Union mediators arrived in South Sudan’s capital Juba for talks aimed at pulling the country back from the brink of a new civil war after First Vice President Riek Machar was placed under house arrest last week.
President Salva Kiir’s government has accused Machar, a longtime rival who led rebel forces during a 2013-18 war that killed hundreds of thousands, of trying stir up a new rebellion.
Clashes between South Sudan People’s Défense Forces led by President Salva Kiir and Machar’s opposition party’s armed wing erupted in January. The uptick in violence has triggered widespread fear of a return to the civil war that ended in 2018 with a peace deal.
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