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| South Sudan Leaders Challenge 'Dictatorial' President |
| 2013-12-07 |
| [An Nahar] Key leaders of South Sudan's ruling party charged President Salva Kiir with "dictatorial" behavior Friday, warning of instability threatening the young nation in a deeply controversial challenge to his rule. The group were led by powerful politician Riek Machar, a charismatic but controversial leader who fought on both sides of Sudan's brutal 1983-2005 civil war, and who was sacked as vice-president in July. It also included Rebecca Garang, the widow of South Sudan's founding father John Garang. The statement makes public the bitter divisions within the former rebel movement turned political party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). "The deep-seated divisions within the SPLM leadership, exacerbated by dictatorial tendencies of the SPLM chairman (Kiir)... are likely to create instability in the party and in the country," Machar warned, reading a joint statement. |
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