Riek Machar’s house arrest and armed clashes signal ‘a severe unravelling’ of 2018 peace deal, his party says
South Sudan’s first vice-president and main opposition leader, Riek Machar, has been placed under house arrest, prompting a warning from the UN that the country is at risk of relapsing into widespread conflict.
Machar’s party said his arrest had in effect collapsed the peace deal that ended the 2013-2018 civil war.
