JUBA: South Sudan’s opposition on Monday called for an armed mobilization to carry out “regime change” in response to plans to put its leader on trial for treason and crimes against humanity.
A fragile power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, Riek Machar, has been unraveling for months, threatening to return the young nation to a civil war that left 400,000 dead in the 2010s.
On Thursday, Machar was charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity and stripped of his position as first vice president in the unity government, having already spent months under house arrest.
A fragile power-sharing deal between President Salva Kiir and his long-time rival, Riek Machar, has been unraveling for months.
He was accused of ordering an ethnic militia’s attack on a military base in March that the government said killed more than 250 soldiers.
