Machar in Khartoum to meet presidents Bashir and Museveni

September 15, 2015 (ADDIS ABABA) – South Sudan’s former vice-president, Riek Machar, arrived to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, to meet with president Omer Hassan Al Bashir, his spokesperson, has revealed on Tuesday evening.

“Comrade Chairman and Commander-in-Chief of SPLM/SPLA, Dr. Riek Machar Teny-Dhurgon, has left for the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on Tuesday evening. He will meet with president Omer Hassan al-Bashir,” said James Gatdet Dak, spokesperson of the opposition leader, in a statement he issued on Tuesday evening.

Dak said Machar is also expected to meet with the Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni in the Sudanese capital. President Museveni has arrived in Khartoum on Tuesday evening too.

He said the trio will discuss issues related to the implementation of the peace agreement signed between Machar and president Salva Kiir in August and promotion of mutual relations between their parties.

Machar, according to his spokesman, will lead a 20-member delegation including senior members of his party.

The armed opposition leader and his delegation, who crossed into Ethiopia on Tuesday from their headquarters of Pagak in South Sudan, was picked from Makot Airport in the western Ethiopian regional town of Gambella by a presidential jet belonging to the Sudanese president.

(ST)