{"id":207526,"date":"2016-04-18T08:31:59","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=207526"},"modified":"2016-04-18T08:31:59","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T08:31:59","slug":"south-sudan-rebel-leader-return-postponed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=207526","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan rebel leader return postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">The expected return of South Sudan&#8217;s rebel leader Riek Machar to the capital, Juba, has been postponed for logistical reasons, a spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>He was due to take up the post of first vice-president, a key part of the peace process aimed at ending more than two years of civil war.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Machar fled Juba at the start of the conflict in December 2013.<\/p>\n<p>More than two million people have been displaced and tens of thousands killed in the fighting.<\/p>\n<p><strong>South Sudan: The world&#8217;s youngest country<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"story-body__unordered-list\">\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Split from Sudan in July 2011 after an independence referendum<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">One of Africa&#8217;s least-developed economies. Highly oil-dependent<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Relations with Sudan strained by disputes over oil revenue sharing and borders<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">Power struggle led to civil war in December 2013<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">An estimated 2.2 million fled their homes during conflict<\/li>\n<li class=\"story-body__list-item\">A tentative, internationally mediated, peace agreement signed in August 2015<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The expected return of South Sudan&#8217;s rebel leader Riek Machar to the capital, Juba, has been postponed for logistical reasons, a spokesman said. He was due to take up the post of first vice-president, a key part of the peace process aimed at ending more than two years of civil war. Mr Machar fled Juba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":207527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-207526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=207526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/207527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=207526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=207526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=207526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}