The Taxation of the South Sudan says the peacekeeping job crashed after the arrest of its leader

Juba, South Sudan – The main opposition party of the southern Sudanov, on Thursday on Thursday Peace Agreement that completed a five-year civil war, crashed after Arrest of his leader Riek Machar the day before.

The Deputy President of the Party, Oyet Nathaniel Pieno, said the contract “abolished” and that Machar’s arrest shows a lack of political good will to achieve peace and stability.

UN warned in Monday that the country says on the edge of a Renewable civil war follow Northward between the armed group of the Federation in Mahar and Government forces.

The UN Spokesperson Stéphane Dujarrić intensified that the warning of the arrest of Machar, saying: “We warn that this action occupies another step closer to the Collapse of the Civil War and Disassembly of the Peace Agreement.”

He said that “unthinkable that political leaders would enable their country to return to the state of bloody civil war and tragedy that would result from vital that the country leaders are first and most important. “

The UN peacekeeping head in the South Sudan, Nicholas Hays, would say that the following reports of Machar should “exercise restraint and support the revitalized peace agreement”, which Dujarić said “to include the return of the Freedom of the First Vice President.”

Five-year civil war South Sudan, in which 400,000 people were killed, ended in the 2018 Peace Agreement. The year that President Salva Kiir and Machar brought together in the government of unity. Machar is one of the five vice presidents in the country.

Machar was “in the Government prison,” and his life was “at risk,” said Pal Mai Deng Opposition Spokesman in the Media video address on Wednesday evening.

Tensions rose between the Kiira and Machar Party and escalated in March when the White Army, the armed group loyal to Machar, violated the army in the Nile State and attacked by UN helicopter.

The government responded with manuals, warning any civilian in the area in which the Army group is based on accompaniment or “faces at the consequences.”

More than dozens of people have died since air drives began in mid-March and UN warned about the renovated civil war if the leaders first not put the interests of the country.

“Tonight the land leader stands on the edge in a widespread conflict or conservation in the spirit of the consensus that reached in 2018. years when they were signed in the realization of the revitalized peace agreement,” said Hays in a statement on Wednesday night.

The opposition officer described 20 heavily armed vehicles coming to Machar’s home where he was arrested together with his wife.

“His bodyguards were disarmed, and his arrest warrant was submitted to him in vague charges,” he told Njath Mucha Tang, a clerk in the Liberation Movement / Army in Sudan – in Opposition.

The President of the Commission of the African Union, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf, said that he would implement the team in Juba “as part of the effort to remove the situation.”

In a statement of X, the Bureau of the U.S. State Department for African Affairs called KIIR to reverse the arrest house and “prevent further escalation of the situation.”

The Chairman of the UN Commission on South Sudan, Yasmin Sook, said on Thursday that “deliberately targeting opposition leaders and civilians represents reckless disrespect for the international law and the future of the country.”

At the beginning of March, several older Allied Alliances were arrested by security forces, the action of his supporters sentenced as “serious violations” of the peace deal.

Germany and Norway temporarily closed their embassies in the Juba. The US Embassy further reduced its minimal staff due to security threats and advised Americans who are in the country to prepare for shelter should “situation further worsen.” The British Embassy also said that it temporarily reduced its staff to the Consular Services “hardly restricted.”

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Edith M. Lederer contributed to this story from the United Nations.