The UN’s Security Council has asked countries to extend help to South Sudan, which is witnessing escalated violence due to clashes between anti and pro-government forces
United Nations: The United Nations Security Council pressed South Sudan’s neighbors to help end renewed fighting in the capital, asking for additional peacekeepers.
Plumes of smoke rise after South Sudanese government attack helicopters hovered over the Checkpoint district of the capital Juba yesterday. Pic/AFP
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In a unanimous declaration yesterday, the council’s 15 member countries also demanded that President Salva Kiir and his Vice President Riek Machar “do their utmost to control their respective forces, urgently end the fighting and prevent the spread of violence, and genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of forces from Juba.”
Considerable fighting has centered around the UN base in Jebel, where some 30,000 civilians have taken refuge. The opposition also has a base near Jebel and their leader also has his home there.
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