President Jacob Zuma joined other leaders in Africa and elsewhere in calling for an end to the renewed fighting in South Sudan.
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The UNMISS reported some 1,000 internally displaced people fled from one of the UNMISS protection of civilians sites to its compounds in Jebel, which suffered small arms and heavy weapons fire.
The opposition also has a base near Jebel and their leader, First Vice President Riek Machar, also has his home there.
The UN Security Council has used an emergency session to call on the factions to end the violence before it escalates into full-scale conflict.
Aside from the scores of soldiers killed after gunfire erupted late Friday outside the presidential compound, at least one civilian died in a United Nations camp caught in the crossfire.
But on Friday, heavy gunfire ended the lull, as rival soldiers started fighting near the presidential palace.
“The United States is determined to ensure appropriate measures are taken to hold accountable those responsible for continuing fighting and violations of global humanitarian law, including attacks on the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and targeting of civilians”.
In a series of tweets, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj today said, “South Sudan – I am aware of the developments in South Sudan”.
Of those, at least 12,000 people are sheltering near the UN Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Wau.
Also there are those who have changed side in a show of solidarity to members of their ethnic groups killed in Friday clashes.
The UN condemned the fighting in Juba and said it was ready to send more peacekeepers to South Sudan.
South Sudan is trying to emerge from a two-year civil war caused by political rivalry between Kiir and Machar.
The violence has raised fears South Sudan could face more instability after emerging from a two-year civil war.
Calm was apparently restored on Saturday but heavy gunfire broke out again on Sunday near a military barracks occupied by troops loyal to Mr Machar. A United Nations official said heavy gunfire had erupted around United Nations bases again. Both said then they could not explain what happened.
The civil war was gruesome – at least 50,000 were killed, more than 2 million displaced, and almost 5 million people faced severe food shortages.
The displaced civilians are mostly of the Nuer ethnic group who sought protection from the United Nations after a series of government-led killings of Nuer in Juba in 2013 which sparked the civil war, according to an African Union commission of inquiry.
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In August 2015, after intense pressure from the worldwide community, Kiir and Machar signed a peace deal that called for a two-year transitional government of ministers and parliamentarians from the two sides before new elections.
