Level advisory trip for Southern Sudan remains on Level 4, Which means that Americans should not travel to the African country.
“Violent crime, such as carjackings, shootings, ambushes, attacks, robbery and abduction are common throughout the southern Sudan, including Juba,” Advisory said. “Foreign citizens are victims of rape, sexual assault, armed robbery and other violent crimes.”
It also said that the US government has a “limited ability to provide emergency consular services to American citizens in the southern Sudan.”
Violence in the southern Sudan escalated, threatening the fragile peace treaty between the best two leaders of the country.
President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar signed a peace business in 2018. years to complete the five-year-old civil war in which more than 400,000 people were killed. Machar serves as the country’s first vice president in the Government of the National Unity, although his political group opposes Kiir.
Political rivalry between the two men is widely considered a great obstacle to peace in the southern Sudan, with Kiir suspicious of his ambition and Machar who calls Kiira dictator.
State Department issues travel advice for all countries. Level 4 is the highest issued by the Ministry of State and is issued only when there is a higher risk of danger of life-threatening. At this level, the American government advises Americans to write will and leave DNA samples with their medical service provider in case of identification.
For South Sudan, the Department called for Americans who decide to travel to the African nation to “practice extreme care” in all parts of the country, including the capital of Juba.
More than dozens of countries, including Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Iraq, Venezuela and Haiti, was appointed under the state department.
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2025-03-09 14:28:00
