The United Nations calls on South Sudan leaders to avoid slipping into a civil war – the seventh day

United Nations Secretary -General Antonio Guterres warned that South Sudan is the latest country in the world and its poorest faces a “complete storm” of the worsening crises that threaten its sliding again to a civil war. He called on the country’s leaders to “dialogue and reduce escalation.”

The Secretary -General of the United Nations spoke about the tragic and dangerous situation whose chapters are exposed in southern Sudan, noting that the country is witnessing a “security emergency” that includes the escalation of clashes, air bombing of civilians, including women and children, the presence of foreign forces, and a regional expansion of the conflict.

Guterres added that “political turmoil” recently reached the arrest of the first vice -president, Rick Machar, which led to the status of the peace agreement “in the wind”, and continued that South Sudan lives a “human nightmare”, where about three out of every four citizens need help, and half of the population suffers from severe food insecurity, with the outbreak of cholera.

Guterres referred to the “displacement crisis” that ravages the country, as more than a million people crossed the borders from Sudan since the start of the fighting there, and to the economic collapse with the decline in oil revenues and high inflation at a rate of 300%.

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