(Reuters) – The party of South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar said on Wednesday it was trying to locate him after the defence minister and chief of national security “forcefully entered” his residence and delivered an arrest warrant.
A statement by Reath Muoch Tang, the acting chairperson of the SPLM-IO’s national committee on foreign relations, called the actions a blatant violation of the constitution and a 2018 peace deal that ended a five-year civil war.
Earlier on Wednesday, the United Nations reported clashes over the past 24 hours between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and Machar’s forces outside of the capital, Juba.
(Reporting by Aaron Ross; Editing by Chris Reese and Leslie Adler)
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