South Sudan’s First Vice President Riek Machar has been charged with murder, treason and crimes against humanity for allegedly coordinating March attacks by the White Army militia on federal forces in Upper Nile State, Justice Minister Joseph Geng said on Thursday.
Machar was charged alongside seven others, among them former petroleum minister Puot Kang Chol, in connection with the raids, Geng told reporters.
The opposition leader—whose forces fought President Salva Kiir’s troops during the 2013–2018 civil war that killed an estimated 400,000 people—has been under house arrest since March.
