Riek Machar earned a doctorate from a British university and in 2011 became vice president in South Sudan’s first democratic election. He now commands 100,000 rebel fighters who threaten to seize some of the world’s richest oil assets.
As fighting continues and peace talks sputter, his next choice of direction will go a long way toward steering the conflict to a peaceful or bloody conclusion, with potentially grave consequences for the ethnically divided nation…
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