JUBA/NEW YORK (Reuters) - South Sudan's former vice president and opposition leader Riek Machar is in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo, the U.N. said on Thursday, several weeks after he withdrew from the capital Juba during fierce fighting with government troops.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the DRC became aware of Machar's presence in the country on Wednesday and contacted the Congolese government, who then asked the mission to extract Machar from his location, U.N. spokesman Farhan Haq told reporters in New York.