Germany has temporarily closed its embassy South Sudan The capital Juba because of rising tensions that the Eastern African country brought on the outskirts of the civil war, said the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Saturday.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir This week the governor of the State Upper Nile, where collisions have escalated between government forces and an ethnic militia that he accuses of connecting his rival, first vice -president Riek Machar.
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The impasse has increased concern that the latest nation in the world could shift about seven years after the rise of a conflict civil war That killed hundreds of thousands of people.
Salva Kiir Mayardit, president of South Sudan, is preparing for a group photo during the 38th ordinary session of the heads of the heads of state and the government of the African Union Commission (AUC) Head office in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 2025. (Reuters/State/Photo -file)
“After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is again on the edge of the civil war,” wrote the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs on X.
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“President Kiir and Vice -President Machar deposit the country into a spiral of violence. It is their responsibility to end this meaningless violence and ultimately implement the peace agreement.”
The Peace Distributor of Zuid -Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, has also said that he is concerned that the country is “on the edge of relapse in the civil war”.
