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07-12-2016, 05:35 AM
JUBA: South Sudan’s president ordered a ceasefire by his SPLA army on Monday and said he remained ready to work with his rival Vice President Riek Machar, after heavy fighting in the capital that has threatened to plunge the nation back into civil war.
"The situation is actually calm as from **w.
All of the commanders of the SPLA were ordered by the president ...on this declaration of ceasefire," presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told Reuters by telephone, adding that any member of Machar’s SPLA-IO force who surrendered must be protected.
Earlier, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate arms embargo against South Sudan in response to an outbreak of heavy fighting that has left hundreds dead.
Ban also appealed to the UN Security Council for targeted sanctions against South Sudanese leaders and commanders blocking implementation of a 2015 agreement to end a civil war.
The UN mission in South Sudan should also be strengthened with attack helicopters, Ban said.
The battles of the past four days are the first between the army and ex-rebels in Juba since rebel leader Riek Machar returned to take up the post of vice president in a unity government in April, under the accord to end a devastating civil war in the world’s youngest country. It won its independence from Sudan only in 2011.
On Sunday the Security Council asked neighboring countries to send more peacekeepers to South Sudan.
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"The situation is actually calm as from **w.
All of the commanders of the SPLA were ordered by the president ...on this declaration of ceasefire," presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told Reuters by telephone, adding that any member of Machar’s SPLA-IO force who surrendered must be protected.
Earlier, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate arms embargo against South Sudan in response to an outbreak of heavy fighting that has left hundreds dead.
Ban also appealed to the UN Security Council for targeted sanctions against South Sudanese leaders and commanders blocking implementation of a 2015 agreement to end a civil war.
The UN mission in South Sudan should also be strengthened with attack helicopters, Ban said.
The battles of the past four days are the first between the army and ex-rebels in Juba since rebel leader Riek Machar returned to take up the post of vice president in a unity government in April, under the accord to end a devastating civil war in the world’s youngest country. It won its independence from Sudan only in 2011.
On Sunday the Security Council asked neighboring countries to send more peacekeepers to South Sudan.
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