South Sudan rebel leadr Riek Machar arrives in Pagak (AFP Photo)
Juba (IINA) – South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar has returned to the country as part of a deal to end a conflict which has left thousands dead.
Machar is now at rebel military headquarters in the eastern town of Pagak, near the border with Ethiopia, his spokesman told BBC on Tuesday.
He is expected in the capital Juba next Monday to resume the post of vice-president as part of last year's deal, while his deputy leader Alfred Ladu Gore is already in the capital.
Last week, more than 1,300 rebel troops were flown to Juba as part of the terms of the peace deal signed in August 2015. These forces are deployed to provide security for Machar, who said he would not come to take up his new position until these security measures were put into place.
The deadly civil war erupted in 2013 after President Salva Kiir accused Machar of plotting a coup. Since then, thousands of people have died and more than two million have been displaced.
South Sudan is the world's youngest country and one of the least developed. It has split from Sudan in 2011.
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