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Who is Salva Kiir, the former rebel leading fractured South Sudan?

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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir promised freedom and democracy in 2011 .

Two years later , he fired his Vice President, Riek Machar , triggering a civil war that fractured his young nation along ethnic lines.

Now a decade on, Kiir 's administration has detained Machar .

The debacle has underlined the depth of the ethnic and societal rifts that have plagued the country since its birth.

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