發言人：南蘇丹馬查爾已經“撤離”
South Sudan rebel leader and former first vice president in the Transitional Government of National Unity, Riek Machar, will break his silence Thursday, a spokesman for the SPLM-IO movement told VOA Daybreak Africa.
Machar has been in hiding since early July following clashes between his supporters and government troops in the capital, Juba.
President Salva Kiir then sacked Machar as first vice president and replaced him with Taban Deng Gai, who was backed by a breakaway faction of Machar’s SPLM-IO movement.
Mabior Garang de Mabior, chairman of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement in Opposition (SPLM-IO) National Committee for Information and Public Relations, told VOA that Machar has been “safely evacuated” to another country in East Africa and will hold a news conference. He said Machar’s whereabouts remain secret because the “enemies of peace” are still pursuing Machar, tracking his every move and phone communication.
The government has denied previous allegations that it has tried to assassinate Machar.蘇丹人民解放運動的發言人告訴美國之音的“非洲拂曉”節目，南蘇丹反政府武裝領導人、過渡聯合政府的前第一副總統馬查爾星期四將打破沉默。
馬查爾的支持者和政府軍在首都朱巴發生衝突後，馬查爾自7月初以來一直在藏匿之中。
南蘇丹總統薩爾瓦·基爾隨即解除了馬查爾第一副總統的職務，並任命塔班·登格·蓋聲接替。登格·蓋本人得到了馬查爾領導的南蘇丹人民解放運動一個分離派系的支持。
蘇丹人民解放運動全國信息和公共關係委員會負責人馬比奧·加朗·馬比奧告訴美國之音，馬查爾已經“安全撤離”到另外一個東非國家，並將在那裏舉行新聞發佈會。他說，馬查爾的下落是保密的，因爲“和平的敵人”仍在追捕他，並跟蹤他的一舉一動以及電話通訊。
政府否認了之前有關試圖暗殺馬查爾的指控。
