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Fears intensify of return to civil war as South Sudan vice-president arrested
Riek Machar’s house arrest and armed clashes signal ‘a severe unravelling’ of 2018 peace deal, his party says South Sudan’s first vice-president and main opposition leader, Riek Machar, has been placed under house arrest, prompting a warning from the UN that the country is at risk of relapsing into widespread conflict. Machar’s party said his…
Xi Jinping sends China vice-president to Donald Trump’s inauguration
Chinese president declines US president-elect’s unusual invitation but sends special representative Han Zheng The Chinese president, Xi Jinping, will not attend Donald Trump’s inauguration, but he is sending his vice-president, Han Zheng, as his special representative. The decision, announced on Friday in China by the foreign ministry, came more than a month after Trump extended…