As tensions rise in South Sudan over the conflict in Nasir in Upper Nile, in the east of the country, First Vice President Dr Riek Machar may also be considering how this could affect his political relevance.
The authorities in Juba have carried out a series of arrests of senior military and cabinet members of Dr Machar’s Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO), accusing them of being in “conflict with the law.”
