South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar attends the 32nd Extra-Ordinary Summit of IGAD Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia June 21, 2018. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - South Sudan offered to allow a rebel representative to join its government on Friday, but ruled out rebel leader Riek Machar, saying they had “had enough” of the man after five years of war against his group.

“Machar cannot be part of government”, Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth told a news conference in the Ethiopian capital after President Salva Kiir met Machar there this week for the first time since a peace deal collapsed spectacularly, leading to the deaths of hundreds of people in the South Sudanese capital of Juba.