South Sudan’s independent Eye Radio quoted an army spokesman saying any soldier found stealing civilian property or looting would be arrested, and shot if they resisted.
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Fighting was heard in several other parts of the city throughout the day, including the tinderbox Gudele neighbourhood – where rebel leader turned vice president Riek Machar is headquartered – and the central Tongping area near the global airport, with gunfire intensifying and subsiding at different times.
Kiir and Machar signed a peace accord a year ago and formed an uneasy transitional coalition government.
There was further exchange of heavy gunfire on Sunday morning with some artillery shells landing in United Nations compounds, and further reports of fighting on Monday 11 July.
UNMISS said gunfire had erupted on Monday around the United Nations headquarters in the Jebel area of Juba and also around a base near the airport. The Associated Press obtained a copy of the order.
“Ministry of external affairs advises all Indian nationals against all travel to South Sudan till the situation improves”, the MEA said in its latest advisory.
More than 250 people are reported to have died in clashes since Friday.
The world body say it compounds are caught directly between the fighting and continue to sustain impacts from small arms and heavy weapons fire.
In this photo dated Friday July 8 2016, South Sudan Riek Machar, left.
On Sunday, the UN Security Council said in a press statement that the 15-nation UN body “condemned in the strongest terms the escalation of fighting in Juba”, and they expressed their sympathies and condolences to the families of Chinese peacekeepers who were killed or injured in the attacks. Ban singled out the killing of two Chinese peacekeepers for condemnation.
Kiir’s announcement came after his forces overran an opposition base in Juba and killed 35 of Machar’s bodyguards, according to opposition officials.
Noting that there must and will be accountability for the atrocities that have been committed in South Sudan since 2013, the Secretary-General said that it is not just the leaders who must “face a reckoning”, but all those in the chain of command.
Through the civil war, however, world powers and regional states struggled to find leverage over the warring factions, despite USA and European sanctions on some military leaders and African threats of punitive actions.
The war has been characterised by rape, ethnic massacres, attacks on civilians, the use of child soldiers, pillage, widespread destruction of property and displacement of the population. Many supporters of the president are Dinka, while supporters of Machar are mostly Nuer.
“We are calling upon everybody, especially the leaders of South Sudan to act with restraint so that we go back to the starting point and allow the transition government to deal with this issue quietly, bearing in mind the lives of the people”, Mr Chergui said.
The United States told its citizens it would evacuate all non-essential staff from the country.
Government forces overran the opposition base in Jebel on Monday, leaving the opposition forces with only their camp in the Gudele area as a foothold in Juba, said William Gatjiath Deng, opposition spokesman.
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A similar skirmish in December 2013 sparked of the civil war that killed tens of thousands of people.
