South Sudan: Leader Riek Machar Returns to Co-Form Unity Government

Rebel chief Riek Machar has been sworn in as first vice president on arrival back in South Sudan. He has returned to join a unity government following a two-year civil war.

Machar - whose return was delayed after a row last week over the weapons he could bring with him - was sworn in as first vice president alongside his longtime rival, President Salva Kiir, in the capital Juba on Tuesday.

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