South Sudan: VP Rules Out Standing Aside for Rebel Leader Machar

2 September 2014

Wau — South Sudan's vice-president, James Wani Igga, said on Tuesday that he will not step down again to accommodate his predecessor Riek Machar.

Igga, who was addressing the opening ceremony of a national peace and reconciliation conference in Western Bahr el Ghazal state capital Wau said he previously stood aside for Machar in 2005 for the sake of patriotism after the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA), which ended more than two decades of civil war between north and south, paving the way for South Sudan's secession in 2011.

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