South Sudan Says Vice President Detained for Plotting Rebellion

South Sudan’s government said it placed First Vice President Riek Machar under house arrest after intelligence reports showed the former rebel leader was planning subversion.

Security forces stormed Machar’s home on Wednesday night, removed his bodyguards and surrounding the house with soldiers. The clampdown follows the arrest of several key members of his party since the start of fighting in the northeast of the country between government troops and a militia aligned to Machar known as the White Army.