Riek Machar

===After 2017===

In October 2017, Machar was under [[house arrest]] in [[South Africa]].<ref name="veconomist" >{{cite news|title=As South Sudan implodes, America reconsiders its support for the regime|url=https://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21730154-american-officials-are-fed-up-being-lied-violent-crooked|newspaper=[[The Economist]]|date=12 October 2017}}</ref>
His house arrest status was lifted in March 2018.<ref name=returntojuba>{{cite news|title=Machar's house arrest lifted, days in SA numbered|url=https://www.iol.co.za/news/africa/machars-house-arrest-lifted-days-in-sa-numbered-14114037|work=[[Independent Online (South Africa)]]|date=27 March 2018}}</ref> Machar's house confinement in South Africa was also criticized by the media.<ref>{{cite news|url= https://sudantribune.com/article61303|title=The irrationality of the South African detainment of Riek Machar
|publisher=Sudan Tribune|date=31 July 2017|accessdate=31 July 2017}}</ref> Machar returned to Juba in October 2018 following a peace deal that was signed in September 2018. As of May 2019 he was living in Khartoum, the capital of South Sudan's northern neighbor Sudan, following a six-month delay in the implementation of a power sharing deal that was meant to take effect on 12 May 2019.<ref name=iol>{{cite news|title=South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar returns to Juba|url=https://www.businesslive.co.za/bd/world/africa/2018-10-31-south-sudan-rebel-leader-riek--machar-returns-to-juba/|work=[[Business Day (South Africa)]]|date=31 October 2018}}</ref><ref name=delayeddeal>{{cite news|title=Kiir urges rival Machar to return to South Sudan|url=https://mg.co.za/article/2019-05-14-kiir-urges-rival-machar-to-return-to-south-sudan|work=[[Mail & Guardian]]|date=14 May 2019}}</ref> Machar was appointed First Vice-president of South Sudan on 22 February 2020 as part of the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity.<ref name="autogenerated1"/>

In 2021, he hinted that the [[2023 South Sudanese general election]] would be postponed.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Africa Live: Nigeria court orders 'maximum comfort' for separatist|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-africa-47639452|access-date=2021-12-02|website=BBC News|language=en-gb}}</ref>