{"id":24702,"date":"2016-04-18T03:43:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T03:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/south-sudan-rebel-leader-riek-machar-postpones\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T03:43:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T03:43:30","slug":"south-sudan-rebel-leader-riek-machar-postpones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/south-sudan-rebel-leader-riek-machar-postpones\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar postpones return to Juba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The expected return of South Sudan&#8217;s rebel leader Riek Machar to the capital, Juba, has been postponed for logistical reasons, a spokesman said.}<\/p>\n<p>He was due to take up the post of first vice-president, a key part of the peace process aimed at ending more than two years of civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Machar fled Juba at the start of the conflict in December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>More than two million people have been displaced and tens of thousands killed in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p>Rebel spokesman William Ezekiel told journalists waiting for Mr Machar at Juba&#8217;s airport that the trip had been postponed until Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the rebels were still committed to the peace process.<\/p>\n<p>{{South Sudan: The world&#8217;s youngest country}}<\/p>\n<p>Split from Sudan in July 2011 after an independence referendum<\/p>\n<p>One of Africa&#8217;s least-developed economies. Highly oil-dependent<\/p>\n<p>Relations with Sudan strained by disputes over oil revenue sharing and borders<\/p>\n<p>Power struggle led to civil war in December 2013<\/p>\n<p>An estimated 2.2 million fled their homes during conflict<\/p>\n<p>A tentative, internationally mediated, peace agreement signed in August 2015<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-11767 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_89286408_89286407.jpg\" alt=\"Riek Machar was expected to take up his post as vice-president in a new unity government led by President Salva Kiir\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The expected return of South Sudan&#8217;s rebel leader Riek Machar to the capital, Juba, has been postponed for logistical reasons, a spokesman said.} He was due to take up the post of first vice-president, a key part of the peace process aimed at ending more than two years of civil war. Mr Machar fled Juba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-24702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24702"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=24702"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=24702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}