
Preventing flares in South Sudan: Is the 2018 peace deal at risk?
South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, this week ordered a sequence of high-level arrests and dismissals of political and military figures as tensions between him and Vice President Riek Machar – a foremost opposition determine – threaten to achieve boiling level. Since Tuesday, troopers of the South Sudanese military have surrounded Machar’s dwelling in Juba, in…