South Sudans: Riek Machar

Riek Machar: Even as several dozen people held a peace march in South Sudans capital, Juba, on Wednesday, there is little evidence that the conflict is moving toward resolution more than three weeks after spiraling violence broke out in the country, according to 660 News. A political dispute that broke out in violence on Dec. 15 has since turned to ethnic-based attacks. President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, says his former vice-president, Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer, tried to launch a coup. Machar denies the accusation and is demanding the release of 11 high-level detainees. Kiir has said they will be released according to the countrys judicial process and ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia Peace talks have stalled, a rebel commander is claiming big victories against the government, and Uganda is sending in more military troops and hardware. Two officials in Ethiopia said Wednesday that peace talks have stalled over the issue of political prisoners. The special envoy of a bloc of East African countries known as IGAD has flown to Juba, the capital of South Sudan, to speak about political detainees. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.