Riek Machar

{{Short description|South Sudanese politician (born 1952)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
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| office              = 1st & 3rd [[Vice President of South Sudan|First Vice President of South Sudan]]
| term_start          = 21 February 2020
| president           = [[Salva Kiir Mayardit]]
| predecessor         = [[Taban Deng Gai]]
| term_start1         = 26 April 2016
| term_end1           = 23 July 2016<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.africanews.com/2016/07/23/south-sudan-minister-taban-deng-gai-replaces-reik-machar-as-vice-president/|title=South Sudanese minister replaces 'missing' Riek Machar as vice president - Africanews|last=AfricaNews|date=23 July 2016|work=africanews.com|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref>
| predecessor1        = ''Position established''
| successor1          = Taban Deng Gai
| president1          = Salva Kiir Mayardit
| office2             = 1st [[Vice President of South Sudan]]
| term_start2         = 9 July 2011
| term_end2           = 23 July 2013
| president2          = Salva Kiir Mayardit
| predecessor2        = ''Himself as Vice President of Southern Sudan''
| successor2          = [[James Wani Igga]]
| office4             = 2nd Vice President of [[Southern Sudan Autonomous Region (2005–11)|Southern Sudan]]
| president4          = Salva Kiir Mayardit
| predecessor4        = Salva Kiir Mayardit
| successor4          = ''Himself as Vice President of South Sudan''
| term_start4         = 11 August 2005
| term_end4           = 9 July 2011
| birth_name          = Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon
| birth_date          = {{Birth date and age|1952|11|26|mf=yes}}<ref>{{cite web|title=Profile: South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/2013/12/profile-south-sudan-riek-machar-20131230201534595392.html|publisher=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]|date=4 January 2014|access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref>
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| nationality         = [[South Sudanese]]
| party               = [[Sudan People's Liberation Movement]]
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| spouse              = [[Emma McCune]]<br>[[Angelina Teny]]
| alma_mater          = [[University of Khartoum]]<br>[[University of Bradford]]
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| children            = 4
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'''Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon''' (born 26 November 1952) is a South Sudanese politician who served as the First [[Vice President of South Sudan]].

== Political life ==
In February 2020, Machar was re-sworn in as first vice president following a revitalised peace agreement with [[Salva Kiir]], the current President of South Sudan. He is also the head of the rebel faction known as [[SPLM-IO]] (Sudan People's Liberation Movement-In Opposition) that was founded in 2014 following the 2013 war outbreak and has been historically in opposition to Kiir. Between April and July 2016 Machar served as the First Vice President of South Sudan. He is designated to be the First Vice President according to the new "revitalized" peace agreement signed in September 2018. Dr. Riek Machar will take up the post of First Vice President when the new unity government is formed, initially in February 2019, but later delayed until February 2020.<ref>{{cite web|author=Jon Temin |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/11/11/south-sudan-peace-agreement-delay-unity-government/ |title=South Sudan's Unity Government Is Delayed by 100 Days. What's Next? |publisher=Foreignpolicy.com |date=2019-11-11 |access-date=2020-04-05}}</ref><ref name="sudantribune">{{cite web|url=https://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article69017|title=President Kiir appoint Machar FVP ahead of South Sudan new cabinet - Sudan Tribune: Plural news and views on Sudan|website=sudantribune.com|date=17 May 2011 }}</ref><ref name="theeastafrican.co.ke">{{cite web|url=https://www.theeastafrican.co.ke/news/ea/Riek-Machar-appointed-vice-president/4552908-5464888-5j0q7rz/index.html|title=Salva Kiir appoints Machar as First Vice President|website=The East African|date=5 July 2020 }}</ref>

Machar obtained a PhD in strategic planning in 1984 and then joined the rebel [[Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army]] (SPLM/A) during the [[Second Sudanese Civil War]] (1983–2005). Machar fell out with the SPLM/A leader [[John Garang]] in 1991 and formed a splinter group, the [[SPLM/A-Nasir]]. In 1997, he made a treaty with the Government of Sudan and became head of the government-backed [[South Sudan Defense Force]] (SSDF). In 2000 he left the SSDF and formed a new militia, the [[Sudan People's Defense Forces/Democratic Front]] (SPDF), and in 2002 rejoined the SPLA as a senior commander. After the death of [[John Garang]] in July 2005, Machar became vice-president of the autonomous Southern Sudan. He became vice-president of South Sudan on 9 July 2011 when the country became independent, but was dismissed from office by President [[Salva Kiir Mayardit]] on 23 July 2016. Machar was re-appointed as First Vice-president of South Sudan on 22 February 2020 as part of the Revitalised Transitional Government of National Unity.<ref name="autogenerated1">{{cite web|url=https://www.aa.com.tr/en/africa/south-sudan-new-government-takes-shape-as-vps-sworn-in/1741960 |title=South Sudan: New government takes shape as VPs sworn in |publisher=Aa.com.tr |date=2020-02-22 |access-date=2020-04-05}}</ref>

==Early career==

Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon was born in [[Leer, South Sudan|Leer]], [[Unity State]] on 26 November 1952,<ref>{{cite web |title=Biography of Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon |url=https://www.presidency.gov.ss/riakmachar.php |website=www.presidency.gov.ss}}</ref> the 27th son of the chief of [[Ayod]] and Leer. 
He was brought up as a member of the Presbyterian church.{{sfn|Manyang|2005}} 
Machar belongs to the Dok section (Dok-Chiengluom) of the [[Nuer people|Nuer Bentiu people]].{{sfn|Schlee|Watson|2009|pp=44}}
He trained as an engineer at [[Khartoum University]], and obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the [[University of Bradford]] in 1984.{{sfn|Arcuil|2006}}{{sfn|Edgerton|2004|pp=128}}

Machar has been called a ''tuut dhoali/Doth in English'', which may be translated "adult boy", meaning uninitiated and literate.{{Clarify|date=June 2022|reason=Shouldn't it be "illiterate"?, unless I am missing the context}}
He has tried to transcend tribal divisions, and at one time attempted to ban initiation marks.{{sfn|Feyissa|2011|pp=170}}
However, in his struggle with [[John Garang]] he exploited ethnic rivalries between the Nuer and [[Dinka people]].{{sfn|Feyissa|2011|pp=204}}
Machar married [[Emma McCune]], a British aid worker. She died in a car accident in [[Nairobi]] in 1993 at the age of 29, while pregnant.{{sfn|Kirkus Reviews}} 
Machar's second wife, [[Angelina Teny]], is one of the leading women politicians in South Sudan. She was state minister of Energy and Mining in the transitional government (2005–2010).{{sfn|Angelina Teny...}}

Machar was a rebel leader with the [[Sudan People's Liberation Army/Movement]] (SPLM/A) headed by [[John Garang]] from 1984 until he fell out with Garang in 1991. As Zonal Commander of Western Upper Nile, in 1986 he entered into an agreement with [[Baggara]] chiefs.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=15}}
Machar led forces that attacked and overran [[Melut]] in 1989. 
That year he was able to visit his family, which was based in Britain, for the first time since the civil war started. 
In 1990 Machar was based at Leer. 
Later he was appointed SPLA Regional Commander for a region that extended from the Ethiopian border in the east to [[Renk, South Sudan|Renk]] in the north and to [[Ayod, South Sudan|Ayod]] and [[Waat]] in the south.{{sfn|Manyang|2005}}

Machar disagreed with the SPLA leader John Garang over objectives. Where John Garang at first wanted a secular and democratic but united Sudan in which the southerners would have full representation, Machar wanted a fully independent South Sudan.{{sfn|Little|2007|pp=192}}
In August 1991 Riek Machar, [[Lam Akol]] and [[Gordon Kong]] announced that John Garang had been ejected from the SPLM.{{sfn|Johnson|2003|pp=202}}
Kong Chuol is from the Eastern Jikany Nuer and Lam Akol is from the [[Shilluk people]].
The breakaway faction, based in [[Nasir, South Sudan|Nasir]] until 1995 and then in Waat and Ayod, was called the SPLM/A-Nasir faction from 1991 to 1993.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=8–9}} As part of [[SPLA-Nasir]], he was involved in the [[Bor massacre]], where 2000 mostly civilians were killed in Bor in 1991 while tens of thousands died in the following years from the [[1993 Sudan famine|resulting famine]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5133324.stm|title=Reclaiming the past in Southern Sudan|publisher=bbcnews.com|access-date=20 December 2013|date=1 July 2006}}</ref>
The Bul Nuer Anyanya-2 militia at [[Mayom, South Sudan|Mayom]] under [[Paulino Matip]] and the Lou Nuer Anyanya-2 militia at [[Doleib Hill]] under [[Yohannes Yual]] declared for Riek.{{sfn|Johnson|2003|pp=202}}

[[Kerubino Kuanyin]] and Faustino Atem Gualdit, Dinkas from Bahr el-Ghazal, had been among the founders of the SPLM but had fallen out with John Garang and had been jailed. They escaped and joined Machar in 1993, with their forces making an important addition to the formerly Nuer-dominated SPLA-Nasir. Kerubino became deputy Commander in Chief.{{sfn|Rone|1996|pp=318–319}} 
After this addition by forces from other ethnic groups, Riek's movement and force was called the SPLA-United from 1993 to 1994.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=8–9}}

In September 1993, President [[Daniel Arap Moi]] of Kenya held separate talks with Garang and Riek Machar.
In October 1993 the US Congress hosted a meeting between Garang and Machar. The two seemed to agree about various subjects related to a cease fire and reconciliation between the two factions, [[self-determination]] and opposition to the Khartoum regime, but Machar disputed Garang's authority and refused to sign a joint declaration.{{sfn|Johnson|2003|pp=204}}
Machar dismissed Lam Akol from the SPLA-United in February 1994. Lam Akol returned to [[Kodok]] in the government-held region of [[Upper Nile (state)|Upper Nile]] state.{{sfn|Johnson|2003|pp=205}}

From 1994 to 1997 Machar's movement was known as the South Sudan Independence Movement/Army (SSIM/A).{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=15}}
Although seeking independence for South Sudan, the group received covert support from the Government of Sudan as it fought the SPLA between 1991 and 1999 in attacks that became increasingly violent and ethnically motivated.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=16}}
Early in 1995 hostilities between the SSIM and SPLA, which had taken several thousands of civilian lives, were temporarily suspended. Machar dismissed Kerubino Kuanyin and Commander [[William Nyuon Bany]] from the SSIM on the basis that they had signed military and political agreements with the government of Sudan late in the previous year, and that they had attempted to form a government-supported faction in the SSIM.{{sfn|Rone|1996|pp=318}}

During the 1990s Machar skillfully developed support among the eastern Nuer, the Jikany and the Lou, taking advantage of SPLA unpopularity with the Jikany and drawing on prophetic tradition to make his case.{{sfn|Feyissa|2011|pp=206}}
In 1996 Machar signed a Political Charter and in 1997 the [[Khartoum Peace Agreement of 1997|Khartoum Peace Agreement]] with the government. Under this agreement he was assistant to [[Omar el-Bashir]], President of Sudan, and President of the Southern States Coordinating Council.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=16}} He was also made commander in chief of the [[South Sudan Defence Forces (militia)|South Sudan Defense Force]] (SSDF), which included most of the ex-rebels who had signed the Khartoum agreement.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=16}}

==Return to SPLM==

There was growing tension between Riek Machar and Paulino Matip's South Sudan Unity Movement (SSUM), which became engaged in forcibly removing civilians from the [[Block 5A, South Sudan|Block 5A]] oil concession area, and assisting in clearances from other oil blocks.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=17}}
In 1998–1999, Matip's fighters and government troops clashed several times with Machar's SSDF forces in a struggle for control of the Unity state oilfields. 
Matip's fighters forced [[Tito Biel]], a high-ranking SSDF commander, to evacuate [[Leer, South Sudan|Leer]] early in 1999. Tito Biel later went over to the SPLA.{{sfn|Peace from within}}

Riek Machar's failure to prevent the government from forcibly displacing civilians from the oil-producing areas of [[Unity State]] turned the Nuer against his leadership.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=16}}
Machar's SSDF began to receive ammunition from the SPLA as of June 1999.{{sfn|Oil-Caused Realignment}}
In 2000 at a meeting of leaders in [[Koch, South Sudan|Koch]] he finally resigned from the government of Sudan and created a fresh militia named the [[Sudan People's Defense Forces/Democratic Front]] (SPDF).{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=16}}
At risk in his own homeland of the Dok Nuer, Riek moved his base of operations to the eastern [[Jikany]] area.{{sfn|Schlee|Watson|2009|pp=44}}
In January 2002 he signed an agreement with John Garang to merge the SPDF into the SPLA, and was given command of the Dok Nuer within the SPLA.{{sfn|Rone|2003|pp=16}}

The civil war ended in January 2005. In August Machar became Vice President of the Government of Southern Sudan and SPLM Co-chair of the Joint Executive Political Committee.{{sfn|Miraya FM}}
When South Sudan became independent, in July 2011 he was appointed first vice president of the new republic.{{sfn|SoSaNews 13 July 2011}}
On 15 July 2011 Machar represented South Sudan at the ceremony when his country's flag was raised outside [[United Nations headquarters]] in New York.{{sfn|Sudan Tribune 15 July 2011}}

==South Sudan politics==
[[File:South Sudan Vice President (8345739210).jpg|thumb|Machar with UK Foreign Secretary [[William Hague]]  in London in January 2013]]
Following the [[2011 South Sudanese independence referendum|independence of South Sudan]], Machar was the vice president of the country. In 2012, he publicly apologized for his part in the Bor massacre as he prepared to pave way for taking the helm of SPLM.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://sudantribune.com/article41540/|title=South Sudan VP confirms apology for Bor Massacre|publisher=sudantribune.com|access-date=20 December 2013|date=4 April 2012}}</ref>

By February 2013 Machar publicly stated his intentions to challenge President Kiir. In July 2013, he, and the entire cabinet, was dismissed from office. Machar said that Kiir's move was a step towards dictatorship.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/video/africa/2013/07/20137287019670555.html|title=South Sudan gripped by power struggle|work=aljazeera.com|access-date=24 July 2016}}</ref> These events in turn led to the [[South Sudanese Civil War]].

After the civil war started, Machar turned towards a "shadowy" group of European arms dealers to arm his forces.{{sfn|Martell|2019|p=235}} Little is known about them. An exception was the Franco-Polish arms dealer [[Pierre Dadak]] who at the time of his arrest at [[Ibiza]] villa on 14 July 2016 was negotiating to sell Machar 40,000 AK-47 assault rifles, 30,000 PKM machine guns and 200,000 boxes of ammunition.{{sfn|Martell|2019|p=235}}

===Return to vice-presidency and second sacking===

In late August 2015, a peace agreement was signed between the government and Machar's rebels. The agreement would make Riek Machar the vice-president again.<ref name="BBC">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34069032|title=Will South Sudan peace deal be worth the wait?|publisher=bbcnews.com|access-date=26 August 2015|date=26 August 2015}}</ref><ref name=irin>{{cite web|url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/101918/is-south-sudan-s-latest-peace-accord-the-real-deal|title=Is South Sudan's latest peace accord the real deal?|publisher=irinnews.org|access-date=30 August 2015|date=26 August 2015}}</ref> In April 2016, as part of the peace deal, Machar returned to Juba and was sworn in as vice-president.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36140423|title=South Sudan rebel chief Riek Machar sworn in as vice-president|publisher=bbcnews.com|access-date=26 April 2016|date=26 April 2016}}</ref> Machar fled the capital after [[2016 Juba clashes|renewed fighting]] between the Kiir loyalists and his own loyalists Juba in July 2016.  After a 48-hour ultimatum given by the president to him for returning to Juba to progress with the peace agreement talks passed, the SPLA-IO in Juba appointed lead negotiator [[Taban Deng Gai]] to replace Machar and the government accepted him as acting vice-president. Machar said any talks would be illegal because he had fired Gai.<ref name=Gai>{{cite web|url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/07/south-sudan-opposition-replaces-missing-leader-machar-160723144856580.html|title=South Sudan opposition replaces missing leader Machar|date=23 July 2016|publisher=aljazeera}}</ref>

===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>

==Literary work==
*{{cite web
 |url=http://www.africa.upenn.edu/Hornet/sd_machar.html 
 |title=South Sudan: A history of political domination: A case of self-determination
 |author=Riek Machar
 |access-date=2011-08-05}}

==Personal life==
On 18 May 2020, Machar and his wife tested positive for [[COVID-19]].<ref>{{cite news|title=South Sudan vice president, wife test positive for coronavirus |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-southsudan-machar/south-sudans-vice-president-wife-test-positive-for-coronavirus-idUSKBN22U2SI|publisher=[[Reuters]]|date=18 May 2020|access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref>

==See also==
*[[Ethnic violence in South Sudan]]
*[[Dinka-Nuer conflict]]

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==Further reading==
* Reeves, Eric. "[https://web.archive.org/web/20151120183711/http://allafrica.com/stories/201312290036.html South Sudan: Riek Machar's End-Game - What Is It?]"  ([https://web.archive.org/web/20151120183711/http://allafrica.com/stories/201312290036.html Archive]). ''[[Sudan Tribune]]''. 28 December 2013.

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