S.Sudan Vice President Charged With Murder, Crimes Against Humanity

Source: International Business Times

Machar was placed under house arrest a few weeks after the attack AFP South Sudan's Vice-President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity over an attack on a military base that killed more than 250 soldiers, the justice minister said Thursday. A fragile power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and his first vice-president Machar has been unravelling for months in the world's youngest country. In early March, a militia from Machar's ethnic Nuer community known as the White Army attacked a military base in Nasir County, Upper Nile State in the northeast of the country.