Riek Machar's South Sudan Rebel Group Fractures

Former South Sudan vice president Riek Machar's rebel group splintered on Wednesday when a senior official announced in Nairobi that he is breaking away and setting up his own opposition movement. In a declaration read out to reporters in Nairobi, Lul Ruai Koang, who until Tuesday was the military spokesman for Machar's Sudan People's Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) rebel group, said he had grown tired of "fighting for an organization that wants to keep on...

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