South Sudanese government has approved the regional bloc’s Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD) to relocate the exiled rebel leader Riek Machar from his house arrest in South Africa apartment to another country outside the region.
However, the release would only be implemented if Machar renounces violence, pledges not obstruct peace and accepts to relocate to any country outside the region not neighboring his native South Sudan.
The South Sudanese rebels have recently warned that they will not accept a deal that requires their leader to relocate to another country after he is released from house arrest in South Africa.
Machar, turned rebel in late 2013 after a power struggle within the ruling party evolved into a civil war, which is in its fifth year now and is responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands and displacement of 2.3 million people from their homes.
