South Sudan

Tense calm in Juba

According to the arrangement of a ceasefire by South Sudan’s President Kiir has calmed down the situation in the capital, apparently. The United Nations made the devastating situation of the refugees carefully.

Correspondents report, in Juba even individual shops and markets were open, people ventured out after the day’s long Fight back on the road. “The soldiers respect the truce,” said military spokesman Lul Ruai Koang.

In Wau in the North-East of the country, there were, according to eye witnesses, however, battles between supporters of President Salva Kiir and his Deputy Riek Machar. They were broken out on Friday night, shortly before the fifth anniversary of the independence of the desperately poor country, and had captured, especially the capital. Under international pressure
meadows Kiir and Machar your trailer on Monday evening, finally, to have a truce.

What concerns the power-sharing President Salva Kiir (R) and his Deputy Riek Machar were in April, still a few

UN: borders should remain open

The battles were a resumption of civil war fear, had torn apart the country since December 2013. In the case of the conflict between government troops and the rebels, Machar were killed, tens of thousands of people and more than three million have been displaced.

In view of the continuing uncertainty of the situation and appeal to the United Nations on the neighbouring countries of South Sudan,
to keep their borders for refugees open. Currently around 36,000 in need of protection were in Juba. Many had sought in churches and schools for refuge and could not be supplied because of the fighting.

Evacuations

According to the newspaper “The world” around 100 to 200 German brought in soon out of the country. In the past few days, the crisis staff of the Federal government, had been in the foreign office on several occasions, confirmed a spokeswoman in Berlin. The European Union had withdrawn in the face of the struggles of their Delegation already reported, the leaf. The employees had already been on Sunday for lunch, first to Nairobi and flown out of the country, it said, citing the high level of EU diplomats.

uh/qu (dpa, rtr, afp)