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Machar's return should place South Sudan on road to healing

Riek Machar

After two years of exile in South Africa, Riek Machar has returned to South Sudan. That was made possible through the latest effort to restore peace to the troubled country.

Machar returned to take up the role of vice president, a role from which President Salva Kiir fired him in 2013, consequently plunging Africa’s youngest nation into the chaos it has barely been able to contain.

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