“A fast and coordinated response is key to preventing a cholera outbreak”, said Mahimbo Mdoe, UNICEF’s Representative in South Sudan.
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United Nations spokesman Farhan Haq confirmed on Wednesday that some United Nations police did not stay at their posts during the recent violence in South Sudan and that they would not be replaced with officers from the same country.
Machar, South Sudan’s Vice President, and his SPLM-IO group, have been caught up with more than two years of on-and-off, ethnically charged fighting with supporters of the country’s President Salva Kiir.
Ajang said the civil society organisations in South Sudan are not in favour of any intervention by foreign forces.
Germany and Sweden also withdrew police without consultation, and as a result all three of us have been barred from replacing the officers once the situation in South Sudan improves.
South Sudan will resist plans by neighboring countries to deploy a regional force in the wake of renewed violence in the oil-producing nation, according to the country’s defense minister.
Machar has not been seen since he left Juba after days of fierce fighting that claimed the lives of at least 300 people and sent tens of thousands fleeing, many to Uganda.
Threats of punitive action against the United Kingdom came after it withdrew police officers from a mission in South Sudan during recent violence without first consulting the world body.
The Sudanese Development and Relief Agency, a body of the local church, has pleaded for aid to help feed 14,400 internally displaced people, many of them children, women and elderly people in Juba, Kajokeji, Yei, Lainya, and Rajaf. Machar is not in Juba following clashes last week, and has said that he will not return to the capital unless a third force is there to keep peace.
An estimated 6,800 new arrivals are being sheltered at the UN House peacekeeping base on the outskirts of Juba, which already housed some 28,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) prior to the fighting.
“The situation in the country remains tense and volatile”.
“Their well-being was our chief concern”, he said.
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“There will be no reason for us to think of other things, except seeing to it that the peace agreement must be implemented”, Gore said. “It will deal a devastating blow” to the government of national unity and the August 2015 peace accord which aimed to end a near two-year civil war in the world’s youngest nation.
