The memo’s harsh tone appears to be a reflection of the UN’s annoyance that it’s ever-growing South Sudan Mission (UNMISS) is accomplishing literally nothing on the ground, as the nation is staring down the barrel of a second civil war in its six year history.
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The Diocese of Northern Uganda has been praised by the country’s armed forces for its crisis response in support for the thousands of refugees streaming into the country from South Sudan.
“This is because South Sudan has no national armed forces, no national security agency”.
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.
UN spokesman Farhan Haq said that the police “did not stay at their post” and that “those particular officers would be withdrawn and not replaced by personnel from the same nations”.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar meet after he was sworn-in as the First Vice President at the Presidential House in South Sudan’s capital Juba, April 26, 2016.
The German U.N. mission confirmed that it had evacuated seven police serving with the U.N. mission, UNMISS, and said that the United Nations had been notified orally and in writing beforehand.
Information minister Michael Makuei said this week he had no comment on Taban’s arrest and he was not responsible for the arrest of any South Sudanese, journalist or not. The five permanents members of the Security Council are charged with maintaining global peace and security and mandate peacekeeping missions. Sweden has pulled three out of the nine police officers serving in the force. It also said the United States was reportedly planning to withdraw nine police.
These are people who fled Juba after deadly fighting broke out earlier this month between government forces and the rebels.
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That left about 1,200 police in the mission, which has a total of about 13,500 peacekeepers. South Sudan, which has sub-Saharan Africa’s third-biggest crude reserves, is producing as little as 120,000 barrels a day because of the conflict that began in December 2013.
