South Sudan has been embroiled in a civil conflict since mid-December 2013, when fighting broke out in a military barracks in the capital, Juba, and then spread rapidly throughout the city. Kiir charged his former deputy, Riek Machar, with attempting a coup. The accusation was the culmination of months of growing tensions between the two. Machar had been angling for Kiir’s job, which led to his firing in July 2013. In the days before the barracks battle, Machar had accused his former boss of possessing “dictatorial tendencies.”
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