South Sudan President Salva Kiir had on Monday evening ordered a ceasefire after days of heavy fighting between government troops and rebels loyal to Vice President Riek Machar.
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In a meeting with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of Algeria, Ramtane Lamamra, the Secretary-General acknowledged the role of the AU High-Level ad hoc Committee on South Sudan, of which Algeria is a member, and reiterated his grave concern regarding the situation in South Sudan.
As night fell, heavily-laden motorcycle taxis led a long convoy escorted by Ugandan armoured trucks mounted with machine guns as it crossed into Uganda at the Nimule border post, some 200 kilometres (125 miles) south of Juba.
The United Nations said around 36,000 people had fled their homes for the perceived safety of UN bases, churches and aid agency compounds since the unrest erupted on Friday. The first flight carrying them reached India on Friday morning.
Thousands of South Sudanese people have reportedly gathered at the country’s southern border seeking to enter into Uganda, but they are being prevented from crossing over, the worldwide advocacy organisation said.
While Minister of State for External Affairs “V K Singh” given the statement on the Delhi Airport to present their reports and told that there are around 156 peoples have been deposing including their two Nepali citizens and the passenger of the Kerala state, some other from Tamil Nadu get down after a short pause here before moving to Delhi.
Uganda’s army chief Brigadier Leopold Kyanda said the mission involving 2,000 soldiers would likely last “two to three days”. Machar said he immediately called President Kiir after receiving the news that his minister was beaten at Crown Hotel, adding that President Kiir denied knowledge of what had happened.
The South Sudanese leader questioned the necessity of more troops.
Uganda gave military support to Kiir against Machar during the civil war, only pulling its troops home late a year ago. There are over 300 people who did not wish to leave Sudan, we have rescued 156 people, and over 40 people had booked commercial tickets on their own.
Humanitarians have now visited all of the reported collective displacement sites and estimate that around 8,000 people remained displaced, including around 4,300 in the UNMISS sites and some 3,700 outside, Dujarric said. And a relieved Shyam, who was reunited with his folks at Thiruvarp here, after managing to flee the bloody internal strife in South Sudan, said he could not be anymore thankful to the Centre and the state government for ensuring his safe passage back home.
The recent clashes between opposition and government forces have been the most violent in Juba since the end of the country’s two-year civil war in August 2015.
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The conflict was been characterised by horrific rights abuses, including gang rapes, the wholesale burning of villages and cannibalism.
