Umayym official: South Sudan swings on the brink of renewed civil war – the seventh day

The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary -General in South Sudan, Nicholas Heissum, said that the deteriorating situation in the country is pushing to evaluate that South Sudan swings to the brink of renewed civil war.

Heissum, who heads the United Nations Peacekeeping Mission in South Sudan (Unmes), pointed out that the political and security situation has deteriorated significantly and societies throughout the high Nile are exposed to continuous air strikes using barrel bombs and bombs, which are alleged that they contain a very flammable liquid that works as a bang.

The UN official said: “These random attacks on civilians cause significant human losses and horrific injuries, especially burns, including women and children. The humanitarian workers estimate that at least 63,000 people have escaped from the area,” the UN official said.

The UN official warned that “the alternative is slipping into a conflict that would erase all the gains made by hardest since the signing of the peace agreement in 2018. It would be destroyed not only South Sudan, but the entire region, which cannot simply carry another war.”

He added that the collective message of the region and the international community is the same, and it is “we are still convinced that there is only one exit from the cycle of conflict, which is a return to the peace agreement.

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