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Riek Machar
1st & 4th First Vice President of South Sudan
Incumbent
Assumed office 21 February 2020
President
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Preceded by
Taban Deng Gai
In office 26 April 2016 – 23 July 2016[1]
President
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Preceded by
Position established
Succeeded by
Taban Deng Gai
1st Vice President of South Sudan
In office 9 July 2011 – 23 July 2013
President
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Preceded by
Himself as Vice President of Southern Sudan
Succeeded by
James Wani Igga
2nd Vice President of Southern Sudan
In office 11 August 2005 – 9 July 2011
President
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Preceded by
Salva Kiir Mayardit
Succeeded by
Himself as Vice President of South Sudan
Personal details
Born
Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon
(1952-11-26) November 26, 1952 (age 71)[2] Leer, Upper Nile, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan (Now South Sudan)
Nationality
South Sudanese
Political party
Sudan People's Liberation Movement
Other political affiliations
Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition
Spouse(s)
Emma McCune Angelina Teny
Children
4
Alma mater
University of Khartoum University of Bradford
Nickname
SENNAR[3]
Military service
Allegiance
SPLA, SPLA-Nasir, SPLA-IO
Battles/wars
Second Sudanese Civil War South Sudanese Civil War
Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon (born 26 November 1952) is a South Sudanese politician who served as the First Vice President of South Sudan.
^AfricaNews (23 July 2016). "South Sudanese minister replaces 'missing' Riek Machar as vice president - Africanews". africanews.com. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
^"Profile: South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar". Al Jazeera. 4 January 2014. Retrieved 18 May 2020.
RiekMachar Teny Dhurgon (born 26 November 1952) is a South Sudanese politician who served as the First Vice President of South Sudan. In February 2020...
British foreign aid worker in Sudan who married then-guerrilla leader RiekMachar. She was killed when hit by a matatu in Kenya whilst expecting her first...
President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy RiekMachar and 10 others of attempting a coup d'état. Machar denied trying to start a coup and fled to lead...
February 2020, when competing combat leaders Salva Kiir Mayardit and RiekMachar struck a unity deal, the R-ARCSS, in 2018 and formed a coalition government...
Garang's death in 2005 led Salva Kiir Mayardit taking over as President and RiekMachar as the Vice President. Full independence from the Republic of Sudan was...
cabinet, including his vice president, RiekMachar, ostensibly to reduce the size of government. However, Machar said that it was a step towards dictatorship...
Machar may refer to: People: Agnes Maule Machar (1837–1927), Canadian author Josef Svatopluk Machar (1854–1942), Czech poet and essayist RiekMachar (b...
decree including his vice president RiekMachar and SPLM party secretary general Pagan Amum shortly after Machar announced he would contest Kiir for the...
among the rebels led opponents of Garang's leadership, most importantly RiekMachar and Lam Akol, to attempt a coup against him. It failed, and the dissidents...
Schagen (1913–2008), Dutch actress and painter RiekMachar (born 1953),South Sudanese politician Riek Gai Kok, South Sudanese politician Reik (surname)...
closely connected to the family of RiekMachar, being the latter's brother-in-law as well as the cousin of Machar's wife Angelina Teny. In course of the...
theft and other miscreant behavior on the youths' part was increasing. RiekMachar, the White Army's erstwhile wartime ally, announced the White Army would...
fighters from SPLA-Nasir, led by RiekMachar, and the militant group known as the Nuer White Army, shortly after Machar split off from the SPLA led by John...
recaptured Mayom in Unity State from the SPLA. In 1991, Paulino joined RiekMachar’s faction. Paulino's Bul Nuer territory around Mankien and Mayom in Unity...
Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) and later for the forces led by RiekMachar during the Second Sudanese Civil War. Gordon Kong Chuol belongs to the...
Between Two Parties of Which Only One is a State. The SPLM/A appointed Dr. RiekMachar Teny, Deputy Chairman of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement and Minister...
South Sudan, RiekMachar was inaugurated as the first vice president to President Salva Kiir. In July 2013, the entire cabinet, including Machar, was dismissed...
opposition head RiekMachar denies coup bid". bbcnews.com. 18 December 2013. Retrieved 18 December 2013. "South Sudan rebel chief RiekMachar sworn in as...
armed by Khartoum. The most notable was SPLA-Nasir founded in 1991 by RiekMachar as an attempt by the Nuer to replace John Garang. The South Sudan Liberation...
Simon Gatwech Dual on 4 August 2021, in which he replaced Vice President RiekMachar as leader of the Sudan People's Liberation Movement/Army in Opposition...
Front / Tamazuj was possibly led by Arab militiamen who had served under RiekMachar in both the Second Sudanese Civil War (as part of the SPLA) and the South...
Sudanese Civil War. In the course of that conflict, Par fought under RiekMachar with several rebel and pro-government groups, and eventually became a...
five years to complete and would be conducted in stages. Vice President RiekMachar said in mid-December 2011 that the government of South Sudan is planning...
headquarters of Ayod County. The Nuer people are the main inhabitants. RiekMachar, first vice-president of South Sudan, is the 26th son of the chief of...
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