Vice President Riek Machar should return to his premises in Juba, where his security will be guaranteed, presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny said by phone from the city.
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HelpAgeFresh fighting broke out in Juba the weekend it marked its fifth independence day and left 36,000 people internally displaced in different parts in Juba with a number attempting to cross over to neighbouring Uganda. In the latest fighting, another was killed in Juba.
United Nations officials have reportedly questioned if Britain’s veto-power on the 15-member Security Council still applied, after it withdrew police officers from a peacekeeping mission in South Sudan after the recent violent clashes.
More than 500 Ugandans from South Sudan are still stranded in the Ugandan border town of Elegu with no shelter, food, water, or sanitation.
They have underscored the need for the global community to call the leaders of South Sudan to account in implementing the promise of peace.
South Sudan became independent in 2011 but civil war broke out in 2013, largely along ethnic lines, when the two most powerful men in the country from the two main ethnic groups fell out.
On the “troubling, most troubling situation in South Sudan”, Ban expressed to the press that he is very concerned that there is continuing violence, sexual violence against women and girls, and attacks against United Nations humanitarian facilities and looting of humanitarian assistance which should be used for many hundreds of thousands of people.
“Let’s work [closely] together to meet the expectations and aspirations of the people”, said Ban citing what he referred to as the 5-Ps – people, planet, peace, prosperity and partnership.
Meanwhile President Salva Kiir Mayardit government has recently rejected the intervention of addition. The UN, however, is treating the withdrawal of those two as a “lack of respect” for the UN mission.
“Good hygiene is crucial to stemming the spread of cholera”, says Kelsi Kriitmaa, IOM South Sudan migration health programme manager.
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The latest violence in the capital echoed the fighting that first triggered the civil war in December 201 and marks a fresh blow to a deal reached past year to end the bitter conflict which began when Kiir accused Machar of plotting a coup.
