A rebel soldier on a bus at Juba airport, the last of 1370 advance party soldiers entering the capital as part of a fragile peace agreement. Photo: KATE GERAGHTY Australians greet rebels in South Sudan By Colin Cosier in Juba The rebels are finally entering the capital of South Sudan, the world's youngest nation - but as part of a peace deal. 
There to greet them are three Australian citizens - Dobuol Lual from Melbourne's eastern suburbs; Chuol Pouk from Bayswater; and David Gatwech, from Blacktown in Sydney.
Mr Lual, a member of the Sudan People's Liberation Army-in- Opposition (SPLA-IO), is overseeing the orderly arrival of 1370 rebel soldiers in Juba as part of the country's fragile peace agreement.
The final 91 soldiers flew in on Sunday afternoon on a Kenyan- flagged charter plane from Malakal in South Sudan's north, emerging from the jet unarmed and in clean, new uniforms.
"I think it's a good day," said Lual, shaking every soldier's hand before they stepped onto a bus waiting to take them to a newly formed rebel camp on the city's outskirts.
Loaded onto the bus, the troops sang in the Nuer language: "People, we are coming from the bush, but not far, the bush of South Sudan" and "Viva SPLA!"
They arrive in a tense city. The opposition had earlier in the day accused the government of mobilising "a force outside of the regular army" and bringing "eight lorries of troops" into Juba "in violation" of the peace agreement.
The rebels' arrival - as a protection force - paves the way for the return of their leader, Riek Machar, on   April 18. The peace agreement has returned him to the post of vice- president.
Machar has not been back to Juba since he fled in   December 2013, when fighting erupted between ethnic Dinka and Nuer soldiers just over two years after South Sudan gained independence from Sudan.
Mass killings of Nuers in Juba followed and the conflict quickly spread across the country, splintering largely along ethnic lines.
Since then, tens of thousands of people have been killed.