SOUTH SUDANESE rebel leader Riek Machar has claimed the “right” to overthrow rival warlord Salva Kiir’s government.

In an interview with the Associated Press in South Africa — his latest port of call since fleeing to the Democratic Republic of Congo in August — the former vice-president said he could return as early as next month.

Mr Machar has said the 2015 peace deal that ended the two-year civil war in the five-year-old country had “collapsed,” and claimed to have enough forces to “liberate” the capital Juba.