South Sudan’s government declared Friday it has “had enough” of opposition leader Riek Machar, dealing a blow to the latest effort to end more than four years of bloody civil war.
Hopes of a breakthrough rose this week after Ethiopia brokered the first face-to-face meeting in nearly two years between Machar and his arch-rival President Salva Kiir. Regional heads of state also flew to Addis Ababa to apply pressure.
But in a South Sudan government press conference on Friday, the day after the summit, spokesman Michael Makuei condemned the rebel chief in bitter but familiar terms.
“We have had enough of Riek Machar,” he said….
Source: Seychelles News Agency
