A United Nations base was attacked earlier this week. Eyewitnesses say heavy artillery and RPGs were used by soldiers who fired randomly and apparently without orders.
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Other residents said they could not leave because of the fighting.
He also confirmed there were heavy fighting at Juba International Airport.
Heavy gunfire was reported on Sunday near a military barracks occupied by troops loyal to Mr Machar. But, as Sunday’s fighting proved, those sites are not insulated from the country’s violence.
The UN House camp, close to where both former rebels and government soldiers are camped at the foot of a mountain to the west of the city, is home to roughly 28,000 people previously uprooted by the war.
A peace agreement last August ended the war but Kiir and Machar have yet to integrate their forces, a key part of the agreement.
President Uhuru Kenyatta has joined the global community in calls for the cessation of armed conflict in Juba following the death of more than 270 people since Friday.
Vice President Riek Machar, left, and South Sudan President Salva Kiir at a press conference just prior to shooting breaking out.
Shots rang out around 8:30 a.m.in suburbs of the capital where troops loyal to First Vice President Riek Machar, the former rebel leader who returned to the capital in April as part of a deal to end the country’s bloody two-year civil war, have set up camps.
“We join the region, and the global community, in calling for a cessation to these brutal actions that endanger the lives of ordinary citizens”, President Kenyatta said.
Lueth said government troops responded when Machar’s forces attacked a checkpoint, adding that those forces had now been scattered.
President Kenyatta expressed grave concern about the fighting in Juba in the past days and urged South Sudan’s government to take immediate steps to restore calm.
The Sudan Tribune reported that United Nations officials said that rounds of mortar landed inside their compound in Juba.
A power struggle between Kiir and Machar escalated into a military conflict in December 2013, killing tens of thousands and displacing more than 2 million people.
In a statement extended to Sudan Tribune on Sunday, it pointed that the Foreign Minister Ibrahim Ghandour would participate in an emergency meeting of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) foreign ministers in Nairobi on Monday to discuss the situation in South Sudan.
The U.N. mission UNMISS said it was “outraged at the resumption of violence”, which it said had led hundreds of people from Juba to seek shelter in its base.
According to SUNA, al-Bashir told the two men to stick to self-restraint and to elevate the interest of South Sudan people for the sake of guaranteeing stability at the region.
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Juba is in lockdown as South Sudan, the world’s newest country, marks the fifth anniversary of independence from neighbouring Sudan.
