What next for South Sudan if Machar fails to honour deadline?

This file photo taken on April 14, 2016 shows a billboard featuring portraits of South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (L) and opposition leader Riek Machar displayed in Juba, South Sudan. South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar will miss an international deadline on April 23, 2016 to return to the capital to take up the post of vice president, the government and rebels said, with his arrival now expected next week.

An international committee tasked with ensuring warring South Sudan parties adhere to the latest peace deal has given Dr Riek Machar today as the deadline to take up his post as the country’s first vice president.

The Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC) for the agreement on the resolution of the conflict in the Republic of South Sudan on Thursday night set the deadline for Machar, whose homecoming has been postponed several times, even after persuasion from the United Nation’s chief Ban Ki Moon.