The detention of the first Vice President of the South Sudan, Riek Machar in Hausarrest, has effectively collapsed the peace agreement, which ended the civil war 2013-2018, his party said on Thursday.
The UN peace mission in South Sudan demanded a reluctance and said that the country was on the verge of the relapse into widespread conflicts.
“This will not only devastate the South Sudan, but also influence the entire region,” said Unmission in a statement.
The five -year civil war, which was largely fought in an ethnic direction, left hundreds of thousands of people in the country who won independently from Sudan in 2011.
Oyet Nathaniel Pierino, deputy chairman of Machar’s liberation movement in the opposition (SPLM -IO) party of Machar, said that Machar’s detention in connection with “canceled”.
It “effectively brings the agreement to a breakdown, so the prospect of peace and stability in South Sudan has now been serious,” he said.
William Ruto, President of the neighboring Kenya, said on X that he had held a call to Kiir for Machar’s arrest and detention and sent a special envoy to Juba to try to defuse the situation.
Ruto said he had two other regional powers with Yoweri Museveni, the President of Uganda, and Abiy Ahmed, Prime Minister of Ethiopia – that borders the South Sudan.
The UN Commission for Human Rights in South Sudan said that the arrests were a dissolution of the peace process.
“The deliberate targeting of opposition leaders and civilians represents a ruthless disregard for international law and the future of the country,” said Yasmin Sooka, the chairman of the Commission, in a statement.
The African Union and the inter -state authority for the development of the regional economic block also demanded reluctance.
The spokesman for the army and the government of the South Sudan did not immediately answer on inquiries about comments on Machar or the declaration of his party as a peace agreement.
Un demanding commitment to peace
The army was used strongly on Thursday near Machar’s house, said a Reuters journalist. On Wednesday, the United Nations reported on the fight between President Salva Kiir and Machar near Juba.
The United States Bureau of African Affairs asked Kiir to leave Machar, and asked the leaders of the South Sudan to “demonstrate sincere commitments for peace”.
The coalition government in South Sudan has slowly made important provisions of the peace agreement, which include the national elections and the standardization of their two armed forces in one army.
Political analysts say that Kiir had tried to support his position by rounding some of the most high -ranking allies of Machar, inviting Uganda’s army, securing the capital and naming the consultant Benjamin Bol Mel as second vice president.
They say that Kiir, 73, prepares Bol Mel, a businessman on the US sanction list, about his connections to construction companies that are accused of money laundering. At the time, the South Sudan said that the decision, Bol Mel, is based on misleading information.
The United Nations had already warned that the violence in Nasir, around 450 kilometers northeast of Juba, and an increase in hate speeches could also spark the civil war again in an ethnic direction.
