South Sudan’s Machar Nixes Peace Deal Amid Sanctions Threat

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar rejected a solution “imposed” by East African leaders to try and strike a power-sharing deal with President Salva Kiir, a spokeswoman for Machar said.

Regional heads of state including Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta proposed that Machar returns as vice president to Kiir, whose allies would occupy 60 percent of positions in a transitional government, Ann Norman, who’s handling public relations for Machar, said in an e-mailed statement.