It is not clear if he will return to set up a unity government by the deadline of February 22.

South Africa’s Deputy President David Mabuza is mediating the on-off peace efforts in South Sudan.

It is stalled on the issue of the number of states in Africa’s youngest country.

At independence from Sudan in 2011, South Sudan had 10 states.

President Salva Kiir increased this number to 28 and then 32.

Riek Machar, who returned to Juba last September, maintains that at most South Sudan can have 23 states based on colonial boundaries.

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