The reported house arrest of Riek Machar, the former bush rebel leader who became South Sudan's First Vice President, marks ...

South Sudan, the world’s youngest ... Both Machar and Chol are members of the Nuer ethnic group, the country’s second-largest ...

In an apparent attempt to boost his stature as a leader of the Nuer, South Sudan's second largest tribe after the Dinka, Machar has kept in his possession a ceremonial stick once carried by a ...