South Sudan’s political crisis escalated dramatically this week as the main opposition party, led by Riek Machar, urged its supporters to mobilize for “regime change.”
The call to arms comes in direct response to the government charging Machar with treason and removing him from his position in the fragile unity government.
The move signals a potential collapse of the 2018 peace deal that ended a devastating five-year civil war and raises the specter of renewed widespread conflict in the troubled nation.