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South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar has left country: spokesman


Thursday August 18, 2016

South Sudan"s rebel leader Riek Machar speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kenya"s capital Nairobi July 8, 2015.
South Sudan"s rebel leader Riek Machar speaks during an interview with Reuters in Kenya"s capital Nairobi July 8, 2015.

South Sudan's former vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar has left the country for a neighbouring state, opposition officials said on Thursday, several weeks after he withdrew from the capital Juba during fierce fighting with government troops.

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A statement issued by the leadership of the SPLA In Opposition (SPLA-IO) said he had left on Wednesday to a "safe country within the region", while his spokesman James Gatdet Dak said he was in a neighbouring state.
 

 





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