South Sudan opposition says vice president’s arrest ends peace deal | Conflict News

A power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar is unravelling, threatening a return to South Sudan’s blood civil war.

South Sudan’s opposition has said that the overnight arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar, longtime rival to President Salva Kiir, has invalidated their 2018 peace deal and risked plunging the country back into war.

A convoy of 20 heavily armed vehicles entered Machar’s residence in the capital, Juba, late on Wednesday and arrested him, according to a statement…