On Wednesday, Riek Machar, South Sudan’s First Vice President and a long-standing adversary to President Salva Kiir, was taken into custody on unexplained charges. This occurrence represents a significant intensification of a dispute that has persisted for several weeks and now endangers a recurrence of the brutal civil war that previously claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands.

Source: https://www.france24.com/en/africa/20250327-south-sudan-s-first-vice-president-arrested-increasing-fears-of-widespread-conflict