The U.N. on Tuesday said it was looking into accusations that U.N. peacekeepers had failed to respond to the attack.
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Ban expressed outrage over violence committed by government and opposition forces in Juba July 8-11.
But by the time government forces arrived on scene, civilians had been raped and beaten. Please see our terms of service for more information.
UNMISS, he added, should coordinate with them their movement outside Juba, either by air or land, including identifying the number of vehicles that travel on a particular day so as to avoid the inconveniences.
Last year, President Barack Obama issued a partial waiver to South Sudan from the Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008, allowing the U.S.to continue military assistance to support South Sudan’s peace process.
“We have to start uniting these forces as of now, the forces of IO and the forces of the government”, he said.
He has been replaced in his absence as Vice-President, and said he would not return to Juba until a regional United Nations force had restored calm there.
The chaos has dismayed regional and world powers who helped broker South Sudan’s secession from Sudan in 2011, and had hoped its independence would draw a line under decades of war and instability that spread across east Africa.
The United Nations last week renewed the mandate of its peacekeepers and added an additional 4,000 protection forces with a tough mandate to protect civilians in South Sudan, which the government said would undermine the country’s sovereignty.
South Sudan’ s rebel leader Riek MacharA Machar representative who did not want to be identified told dpa he was in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.
“There have been allegations and reports of various cases of sexual assault”.
“We took him from one part of the DRC to another”, Haq said. The outbreak of violence in July was just the latest round, according to Forsyth.
The split between Machar and President Salva Kiir in 2013 prompted the country’s long descent into civil war, which has left tens of thousands dead.
Facing sanctions and mounting pressure from the global community, the sparring sides signed a power-sharing agreement in August 2015 with the promise to end almost two years of ruinous war.
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After clashes with President Salva Kiir’s army in the capital of Juba on July 8th, Machar and rebel forces left the city, putting the country’s peace deal in limbo.
