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Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has announced plans to dispatch a special envoy to Juba in an effort to ease rising tensions between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar.<\/em><\/p>\n President Ruto disclosed that he had spoken to President Kiir regarding the situation that led to the arrest and detention of Machar.<\/p>\n He further noted that his decision followed consultations with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.<\/p>\n “[I] had a phone…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Nairobi \u2014 President William Ruto has announced plans to dispatch a special envoy to Juba in an effort to ease rising tensions between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar. President Ruto disclosed that he had spoken to President Kiir regarding the situation that led to the arrest and detention of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":194774,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[784],"tags":[258,256,36746,6978,5882,880,24193,257,24192,11238,5213,254,5881,4708,1613,7182],"class_list":["post-194773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sudan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deescalate","tag-detention","tag-envoy","tag-juba","tag-machars","tag-news","tag-riek","tag-ruto","tag-send","tag-south-africa-today","tag-special","tag-sudan","tag-sudan-news","tag-tensions"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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