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Wednesday, January 22, 2014
South Sudan announced that its troops have retaken the regional capital Malakal back from rebels. “They took Malakal and other areas around in the Upper Nile region,” South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir stated during a news conference. The rebels dismissed the statement.
If the Juba government reports are correct, this would be the second major city where government troops have routed out the rebels in the past week; Bor was the other town reportedly retaken. It should be noted however, that the government troops did not do this on their own as they have been backed by troops from Uganda. The troops in South Sudan from Uganda fall in line with a statement that Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni released aimed at Juba’s former VP and now rebel leader Riek Machar.
In late-December Museveni issued a subtle threat to Machar saying, “We (regional countries) gave Riek Machar four days to respond and if he doesn’t we shall have to go for him, all of us, that is what we agreed in Nairobi,” when talking to reporters in Juba. When asked what he meant, Museveni said “to defeat him.”
A rebel spokesman in Addis Ababa, where talks aimed at a ceasefire have been taking place for a number of weeks, dismissed Kiir’s statement. “It is true that they made an attempt to capture the town around 1pm this afternoon, but they were defeated. Malakal is still in our hands,” Lul Ruai Koang told Reuters.
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