Kenya has dispatched a special envoy to South Sudan to discuss the circumstances surrounding the arrest of First Vice President Riek Machar with President Salva Kiir.
President William Ruto announced on social media that he had a telephone conversation with President Kiir on Thursday.
"I had a phone call with President Salva Kiir on the situation leading to the arrest and detention of the First Vice President Riek Machar in South Sudan. I’m sending a special envoy to engage, try to de-escalate, and brief us back," Ruto posted.
Had a phone call with Pres. Salva kiir on the situation leading to the arrest and detention of 1st vice Pres. Riak Machar in South Sudan. After consultations with Pres. Museveni and PM Abiy, I'm sending a special envoy to South sudan to engage, try deescalate, and brief us back. — William Samoei Ruto, PhD (@WilliamsRuto) March 27, 2025
The decision was reached after consultations with Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
Machar was placed under house arrest on Wednesday, according to his party, amid growing tensions that the United Nations has warned could push the world's youngest nation to the brink of civil war.
His acting press secretary, Puok Both Baluang, stated that South Sudan’s National Security Service detained Machar after security forces, led by the country’s defense minister and national security chief, allegedly stormed his residence. The officials reportedly disarmed his bodyguards and presented an arrest warrant under unclear charges.
The incident has raised concerns among regional leaders, prompting diplomatic efforts to resolve the crisis.
Subscribe to our newsletter and stay updated on the latest developments and special offers!
Pick your favourite topics below for a tailor made homepage just for you
1 x Application (99.29%) | 1.50s |
1 x Booting (0.71%) | 10.78ms |
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `site_id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `long_title`, `thumbnail_url`, `story`, `published_at`, `premium`, `keywords`, `summary` from `articles` where `id` = '2001514854' and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `deleted_at` is null
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select * from `days_quote` where `deleted_at` is null and `quote_day` = '2025-04-02'
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `authors`.*, `article_authors`.`article_id` as `pivot_article_id`, `article_authors`.`author_id` as `pivot_author_id` from `authors` inner join `article_authors` on `authors`.`id` = `article_authors`.`author_id` where `article_authors`.`article_id` = 2001514854 and `authors`.`deleted_at` is null
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id` from `article_categories` where `site_id` = 1 and `id` = 588 or `parent_id` = 588 and `deleted_at` is null
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where `article_category_id` in (1, 588) and `site_id` = 1 and `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' order by `published_at` desc, `list_order` asc, `parent_category_list_order` asc limit 10 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (1, 588)
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `short_name`, `parent_id`, `site_id` from `article_categories` where `id` = 588
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `short_name`, `parent_id`, `site_id` from `article_categories` where `id` is null
Backtrace |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `short_name`, `parent_id`, `site_id` from `article_categories` where `id` is null
Backtrace |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `short_name`, `parent_id`, `site_id` from `article_categories` where `id` is null
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `short_name`, `parent_id`, `site_id` from `article_categories` where `refer_id` is null
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `site_id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `story`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where (`keywords` LIKE '%[\"South Sudan Crisis\",\"President William Ruto\",\"Riak Machar\",\"Salva Kiir\"]%') and `site_id` = 1 and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `deleted_at` is null and `id` not in ('2001514854') order by `published_at` desc limit 4 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where (`site_id` = 1 or `site_id` = 16 or `site_id` = 20) and `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `published_at` >= '2025-04-02 18:08:21' order by RAND(), `published_at` desc, `homepage_list_order` asc, `list_order` asc limit 4 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (3, 4, 588)
Backtrace |
|
select `id` from `article_categories` where `site_id` = 1 and `id` = 480 or `parent_id` = 480 and `deleted_at` is null
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where `article_category_id` in (480, 481, 482, 719) and `site_id` = 1 and `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' order by `published_at` desc, `list_order` asc, `parent_category_list_order` asc limit 4 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (480, 482)
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where (`premium` = 1 or `article_category_id` = 486) and `site_id` = '1' and `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `homepage_list_order` is not null order by `published_at` desc, `homepage_list_order` asc, `list_order` asc limit 4 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (3, 588, 601)
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `site_id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `story`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where `id` < '2001514854' and `site_id` = 1 and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `deleted_at` is null order by `id` desc limit 1
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (23)
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `site_id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `story`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where `id` > '2001514854' and `site_id` = 1 and `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' limit 1
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (11)
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `site_id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `story`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `article_category_id` = 588 and `site_id` = 1 and `id` not in ('2001514854') order by `homepage_list_order` asc, `published_at` desc limit 6 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (588)
Backtrace |
|
select `videos`.`id`, `videos`.`video_category_id`, `videos`.`title`, `videos`.`video_url`, `videos`.`description`, `videos`.`published_at`, `videos`.`thumbnail_url` from `videos` inner join `video_categories` on `video_categories`.`id` = `videos`.`video_category_id` where (`keywords` LIKE '%[\"South Sudan Crisis\",\"President William Ruto\",\"Riak Machar\",\"Salva Kiir\"]%') and `videos`.`deleted_at` is null and `video_categories`.`video_type_id` = 1 order by `published_at` desc limit 3 offset 0
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select count(std_trend_article_id) as count, std_trend_article_id from `std_article_trends` group by `std_trend_article_id` order by `count` desc limit 20
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `article_category_id`, `title`, `thumbnail_url`, `published_at`, `premium` from `articles` where `id` in (2001515418, 2001515368, 2001515333, 2001515335, 2001515222, 2001515322, 2001515341, 2001249065, 2001515414, 2001515329, 2001515372, 2001515292, 2001515181, 2001515385, 2001515239, 2001515083, 2001514967, 2001260273, 2000198221, 2001503399) and `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:21' and `homepage_list_order` is not null order by `published_at` desc, `homepage_list_order` asc, `list_order` asc limit 5
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select `id`, `name`, `parent_id` from `article_categories` where `article_categories`.`id` in (3, 267)
Backtrace |
|
select * from `settings` where `meta_name` = 'article_age' limit 1
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select * from article_categories where id = '588'
Backtrace |
|
select * from article_categories where id = '588'
Backtrace |
|
select * from article_categories where id = '588'
Backtrace |
|
select * from article_categories where id = '588'
Backtrace |
|
select * from `articles` where `deleted_at` is null and `published_at` <= '2025-04-02 19:08:22' and (`keywords` like '%South Sudan Crisis%' or `keywords` like '%President William Ruto%' or `keywords` like '%Riak Machar%' or `keywords` like '%Salva Kiir%') and (`site_id` = 1 or `site_id` = 16 or `site_id` = 20) and `id` <> '2001514854' order by `published_at` desc limit 3
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
select * from `favourite_topics` where `status` = 1
Bindings |
|
Backtrace |
|
200
[]
[]
0 of 0array:24 [▼ "cf-ray" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "92a1959d1afd89f5-EWR" ] "x-forwarded-for" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "18.220.129.8" ] "host" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "www.standardmedia.co.ke" ] "cf-connecting-ip" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "18.220.129.8" ] "accept-encoding" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "gzip, br" ] "sec-fetch-site" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "none" ] "x-forwarded-proto" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "https" ] "cookie" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkNja0ZDaXZOemxrOXB3RStWbHZSU2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiQmZ1V1FGelpXaDRnYS9yVEw0NkFKMHdzc2lPelo1dmgwa05TcmVKc2I0QkpFQVZRVlFvT1hvRjVTOEJOaUFkVndlUlFwelZJL1RIQjkyMGVzV1FmM2VlQm1LSXNTM3czOVRuZE11NENYckhrOE5NV2g5TkJqMWxhNmdwajd6QysiLCJtYWMiOiJjNzI1MmUwNWNiZjFjNmY4YWE2ODk5OWU0OTc5ODRmMzU4MjZmYTg2MDYzYjllNWEwMjI1ZDU2YTViYTNmMDk3IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; thestandardmediagroup_session=eyJpdiI6InJSR0tlUVdnY0prTVpqUnpLbXlneGc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiaENTSkVDSVZ6UWx4L1JOTDhMMWpVYmZSdFVXOXBhVDJUMFpUMTE4T29QZ3JYQm9nenhGYytsdDNDMm9rT2IzVGVzNVh3U1k4Z2o5emlnOUQ5Y0dJVzI3VWFhSk5JL0luWEE3eTM1bkZtdXhMVWczQTVRK3VoM2YzS2czb0xGTS8iLCJtYWMiOiI3MjQ5YmE5ZTkzODgxNmIwMTc3NjAxZmVmMjI4MjZiOTVkNGI5ZDIxOGM2ZGM0NWU0Zjk2NWJjMmQ2NTk5N2I0IiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D ◀XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6IkNja0ZDaXZOemxrOXB3RStWbHZSU2c9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiQmZ1V1FGelpXaDRnYS9yVEw0NkFKMHdzc2lPelo1dmgwa05TcmVKc2I0QkpFQVZRVlFvT1hvRjVTOEJOaUFkVndlUlFwe ▶" ] "priority" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "u=0, i" ] "cf-visitor" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "{"scheme":"https"}" ] "cf-ipcountry" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "US" ] "sec-fetch-dest" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "document" ] "cdn-loop" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "cloudflare; loops=1" ] "sec-fetch-user" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "?1" ] "sec-fetch-mode" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "navigate" ] "connection" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "Keep-Alive" ] "pragma" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "no-cache" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "no-cache" ] "sec-ch-ua" => array:1 [▶ 0 => ""HeadlessChrome";v="129", "Not=A?Brand";v="8", "Chromium";v="129"" ] "sec-ch-ua-mobile" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "?0" ] "sec-ch-ua-platform" => array:1 [▶ 0 => ""Windows"" ] "upgrade-insecure-requests" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "1" ] "user-agent" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com)" ] "accept" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/avif,image/webp,image/apng,*/*;q=0.8,application/signed-exchange;v=b3;q=0.7" ] ]
0 of 0array:2 [▼ "XSRF-TOKEN" => "ZAjGqDQWHrGYxPvLt6P1CcoVvkmwTL7DOJdSVA9v" "thestandardmediagroup_session" => "nprZVYnL1QXeIUvNP7oXjYhfqbU7yHoB6437Ueno" ]
0 of 0array:5 [▼ "content-type" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "text/html; charset=UTF-8" ] "cache-control" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "no-cache, private" ] "date" => array:1 [▶ 0 => "Wed, 02 Apr 2025 16:08:22 GMT" ] "set-cookie" => array:2 [▶ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6InZwMzVqM1pBbFg3U1E3UlgrTElmWXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWnNoRy9md2dta0gwbG9xdVZ6ZEpiRTNCdlkrREJmSlo5QkxuOEVMMkltOWh2ajZLejZGMkJPVnRtMDlhUGM4ejlsd29nOThPQzN4WWlaZ3RQakQ4MzJHdlI5QXhMYVVhSG91eEloK281SFg4UlNuQjREOWV5RHFSYlRlTHZjN0oiLCJtYWMiOiJhZWM3ZjI3YjdiYmNjN2RhMWFlZWRlZDJiNTk3MTYzZTM2MjYyN2QwNDRlMTYyM2U3ZTViYmIxMmJmY2QwYzNlIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sat, 03 May 2025 02:37:22 GMT; Max-Age=2629740; path=/; samesite=lax ◀XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6InZwMzVqM1pBbFg3U1E3UlgrTElmWXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWnNoRy9md2dta0gwbG9xdVZ6ZEpiRTNCdlkrREJmSlo5QkxuOEVMMkltOWh2ajZLejZGMkJPVnRtMDlhUGM4ejlsd29nO ▶" 1 => "thestandardmediagroup_session=eyJpdiI6Inc2OTJwUm53THJzV3NISTY4VGlyVEE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiUWgzU1l3V1RZeWpXUkhRYTNhRHFpL2dTQnVhUUxEN3ZmL2JvU2JlTDhvRFFUN1pJaWxXaTFMcUF4aUJlSktHc2ZsR1g2U082Z2xFeTJTaWdCUzNnT0hOUldJMThSaHJwdStFMnhhTWFWcjkvUFZHdmtmRDJHdGtIRmNxVTRqa1ciLCJtYWMiOiI3NTBiMzQ2MWYzYzNlZWVlN2QxZDIxYTIzMWM3OWZhYjhjYzA4NDVmY2U3MmQ4YjJmMzE5Nzg0ZDVjMzc0NWNkIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sat, 03 May 2025 02:37:22 GMT; Max-Age=2629740; path=/; httponly; samesite=lax ◀thestandardmediagroup_session=eyJpdiI6Inc2OTJwUm53THJzV3NISTY4VGlyVEE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiUWgzU1l3V1RZeWpXUkhRYTNhRHFpL2dTQnVhUUxEN3ZmL2JvU2JlTDhvRFFUN1pJaWxXaTFMcU ▶" ] "Set-Cookie" => array:2 [▶ 0 => "XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6InZwMzVqM1pBbFg3U1E3UlgrTElmWXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWnNoRy9md2dta0gwbG9xdVZ6ZEpiRTNCdlkrREJmSlo5QkxuOEVMMkltOWh2ajZLejZGMkJPVnRtMDlhUGM4ejlsd29nOThPQzN4WWlaZ3RQakQ4MzJHdlI5QXhMYVVhSG91eEloK281SFg4UlNuQjREOWV5RHFSYlRlTHZjN0oiLCJtYWMiOiJhZWM3ZjI3YjdiYmNjN2RhMWFlZWRlZDJiNTk3MTYzZTM2MjYyN2QwNDRlMTYyM2U3ZTViYmIxMmJmY2QwYzNlIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sat, 03-May-2025 02:37:22 GMT; path=/ ◀XSRF-TOKEN=eyJpdiI6InZwMzVqM1pBbFg3U1E3UlgrTElmWXc9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiWnNoRy9md2dta0gwbG9xdVZ6ZEpiRTNCdlkrREJmSlo5QkxuOEVMMkltOWh2ajZLejZGMkJPVnRtMDlhUGM4ejlsd29nO ▶" 1 => "thestandardmediagroup_session=eyJpdiI6Inc2OTJwUm53THJzV3NISTY4VGlyVEE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiUWgzU1l3V1RZeWpXUkhRYTNhRHFpL2dTQnVhUUxEN3ZmL2JvU2JlTDhvRFFUN1pJaWxXaTFMcUF4aUJlSktHc2ZsR1g2U082Z2xFeTJTaWdCUzNnT0hOUldJMThSaHJwdStFMnhhTWFWcjkvUFZHdmtmRDJHdGtIRmNxVTRqa1ciLCJtYWMiOiI3NTBiMzQ2MWYzYzNlZWVlN2QxZDIxYTIzMWM3OWZhYjhjYzA4NDVmY2U3MmQ4YjJmMzE5Nzg0ZDVjMzc0NWNkIiwidGFnIjoiIn0%3D; expires=Sat, 03-May-2025 02:37:22 GMT; path=/; httponly ◀thestandardmediagroup_session=eyJpdiI6Inc2OTJwUm53THJzV3NISTY4VGlyVEE9PSIsInZhbHVlIjoiUWgzU1l3V1RZeWpXUkhRYTNhRHFpL2dTQnVhUUxEN3ZmL2JvU2JlTDhvRFFUN1pJaWxXaTFMcU ▶" ] ]
0 of 0array:4 [▼ "_token" => "ZAjGqDQWHrGYxPvLt6P1CcoVvkmwTL7DOJdSVA9v" "_previous" => array:1 [▶ "url" => "http://www.standardmedia.co.ke/main-staging/national/article/2001514854/kenya-sends-special-envoy-to-south-sudan-over-machars-arrest" ] "_flash" => array:2 [▶ "old" => [] "new" => [] ] "offset" => 0 ]