{"id":31728,"date":"2023-02-07T16:44:03","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T16:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan"},"modified":"2023-02-07T17:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:37:40","slug":"machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan","title":{"rendered":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span><b> <\/b> South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said peace will still remain elusive in the country until when the government resettles the displaced, end violence and disseminate peace.<\/p>\n<p>Machar made these comments during Sunday prayers at one of the local church in Juba where he also called on the Church to help in the dissemination of peace starting with their various congregations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us reconcile first in the Church before moving to those involved in intercommunal violence,\u201d said the first vice-president.<\/p>\n<p>Machar warned that peace will still remain elusive in the country because people are still displaced, there is escalating subnational violence all over the country and that the government has failed to disseminate the information as provided for in the revitalized peace agreement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told our people on 31 October 2018 at the Mausoleum that peace has come but for me this peace remains elusive because we still have IDPs and Refugees who are yet to return to their homes,\u201d Machar told the Church gathering.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe still have intercommunal violence because the message has not properly reached our people, however, with this pilgrimage we should kick off the dissemination of the agreement to our people on the ground, in the POCs and Refugee camps,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said peace will still remain elusive in the country until when the government resettles the displaced, end violence and disseminate peace. Machar made these comments during Sunday prayers at one of the local church in Juba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":31726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,12,293],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-31728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-policy","category-to-homepage","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-02-07T16:44:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-02-07T17:37:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-07T16:44:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-07T17:37:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\"},\"wordCount\":235,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"policy\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\",\"name\":\"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan - South Sudan\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-02-07T16:44:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-02-07T17:37:40+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":800,\"caption\":\"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/\",\"name\":\"South Sudan\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan - South Sudan","description":"South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan","og_description":"South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan","og_site_name":"South Sudan","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2023-02-07T16:44:03+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-02-07T17:37:40+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1200,"height":800,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan","datePublished":"2023-02-07T16:44:03+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-07T17:37:40+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan"},"wordCount":235,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-South-Sudan","South-Sudan"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","policy","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan","name":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan - South Sudan","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg","datePublished":"2023-02-07T16:44:03+00:00","dateModified":"2023-02-07T17:37:40+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"South Sudan\u2019s first vice-president and main armed opposition SPLM-IO leader Dr. Riek Machar Teny on Sunday said ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2023\/02\/postQueueImg_1675775674.18.jpg","width":1200,"height":800,"caption":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/machar-says-peace-remains-elusive-in-south-sudan#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Machar says peace \u2018remains elusive\u2019 in South Sudan"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/","name":"South Sudan","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}