Riek Machar, born Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon, is a South Sudan politician and the incumbent vice president of the country.
Riek Machar Teny Dhurgon who is now 69 years old was born in the year 1952 in Leer, Unity State, Anglo-Egyptian Sudan.
He is the founder of Sudan People’s Liberation Movement-in-Opposition, a rebel faction noted for holding the government to check.
Machar was educated at the University of Khartoum in Sudan and also holds a Ph.D. in strategic planning and industry from Bradford University.
He has a reputation in the diplomatic and aid community as one of the more open and approachable members of independent South Sudan’s government.
He is from the Nuer tribe, South Sudan’s second-largest tribe after the Dinka.
Riek Machar Net Worth
Riek Machar commands an estimated net worth of $3 million. He has some luxurious cars aside from the political official car.
Riek Machar Wife and Son
In 1991, Machar married a British aid worker, Emma McCune. McCune died at age 28 in a car crash in Nairobi in 1993.
Machar then married Angelina Jany Teny, a South Sudanese politician who served as state minister of Energy and Mining from 2005 and 2010.
He has four children with Angelina Teny, a daughter, Meer Teny, and three sons, Teny Riek Machar Teny, Gordon Teny and Tim Teny.