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Riek Machar to return to Juba in April 18 to form transitional government

Riek Machar 

Juba: South Sudan's opposition leader Riek Machar said on Thursday he would return to the capital Juba on April 18 to form a transitional government with President Salva Kiir, more than two years after a feud between the two men erupted into war.

Kiir sacked Machar as vice president in 2013, exacerbating a political dispute that erupted into fighting in December that year between soldiers loyal to both men, reopening ethnic rifts between Kiir's Dinka group and Machar's Nuer.

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