South Sudan rebel chief brings ally for peace talks

Bloomberg

South Sudan’s main rebel leader arrived in the capital, Juba, for talks about a peace deal that was signed last year but whose implementation has been slow.
He was accompanied by one of neighbouring Sudan’s most powerful military men.
The visit, only the second since rebel chief Riek Machar fled Juba on foot three years ago, is meant to “help with issues that are arising in the peace process,” his deputy Henry Odwar said by phone. Machar, who lives in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, has disagreed with President Salva Kiir over the implementation of the accord to end a five-year civil war that’s killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Under the deal, South Sudan is to name a transitional government and Machar will return as Kiir’s deputy, a post he held both before civil war broke out in December 2013 and when he returned in 2016.
The crisis has displaced about four million people, slashed crude production and unleashed economic chaos in the country.