Germany temporarily closed its embassy South Sudan The German Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that the capital, Juba, was due to the high tensions that brought East Africa about the civil war.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir This week, the governor of the Upper Nile State was dismissed, where clashes between government forces and ethnic militias accused of alliance with his opponent, First Vice President Rick Maher.
The European Union denies the intention to delay the elections of South Sudan
The confrontation led to the increase in concerns that the latest nation in the world can slip into the conflict about seven years of its appearance from a Civil war That killed hundreds of thousands of people.
President of South Sudan, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to take a group photo during the thirty -eighth regular session of the heads of state state and the African Union government at the headquarters of the African Union Committee (AUC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February. 15, 2025. (Reuters/File/Photo File)
The German Foreign Ministry wrote at X: “After years of fragile peace, southern Sudan again on the verge of the civil war,” the German Foreign Ministry wrote at X.
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“President Kiir and the vice -president of Maher, the country, sank the country in a cycle of violence. They have the responsibility to end this meaningless violence and finally implement the peace agreement.”
Nicholas Heissum, head of the United Nations reservation in South Sudan, said he was concerned that the country is “on the verge of relapse in the civil war.”
