Bashir rushes to the rescue of Machar in remote DRC town

Former South Sudan First Vice President Riek Machar. Sudan is reported to have sent an aircraft to rescue him in DRC where he has been stranded for days. [photo: file/standard]

Details have emerged about a mission to evacuate wounded South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar from his reported hideout in a remote town in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Yesterday reports indicated that Sudan President Omar al-Bashir’s government had dispatchedan aeroplane to rescue Dr Machar.