The United Nations warns of the conflict in South Sudan amid reports of the arrest of VP Riek Machar | Riek Machar News

According to what was reported, First Vice President Rick Mashr was arrested after he entered an armed convoy led by government officials in his stay in the capital, Juba.

The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMiss) called on all parties to exercise restraint amid reports of the arrest of First Vice President Rick Mashr – the long -standing competitor to the country’s President Salva Kiir.

Omis Nicholas Hessum President said that the country has risked the loss of “hard gains during the past seven years” then. The latest nation in the world He returned to the “state of war”, after reports that Machar was arrested at his residence in the capital, Juba.

“Tonight, the country’s leaders are standing on the relapse of the relapse to a widespread conflict or pushing the country forward towards peace, recovery and democracy in a spirit of consensus reached in 2018 when they signed and committed to implementing a peace agreement that has been re -modified,” Heissum said in a statement issued early on Thursday.

A Return to fighting “It will not only destroy South Sudan, but will also affect the entire region.”

According to Machar’s Sudan People Beop in opposition (Splm/IO), a convoy of 20 armed vehicles with weapons “entered the headquarters of the first vice president’s residence in Juba and removed his personal guards on Wednesday.

The country’s defense minister and head of national security said in the convoy that submitted an arrest warrant to the Vice President

“An arrest warrant has been delivered to him on unclear charges,” according to a statement shared on Facebook by Rath Muoch Tang, head of the Machar Foreign Relations Committee.

Tang said: “This act is a flagrant violation of the constitution and the peace agreement that was activated, as no legal procedures such as raising immunity were followed.”

He said, “The arrest of the first vice president without legal procedures undermines the rule of law and threatens the stability of the nation.”

A government spokesman cannot be reached immediately for comment.

Earlier on Wednesday, the United Nations Clashes the reported clashes Over the past 24 hours between the forces loyal to President Kiir and Vice President Maher outside the capital, Juba.

The peace deal reveals

It was the power participation deal between Kiir and Reach It reveals in recent weeks Amid the tension where pro -the government forces fought the president’s fighters for the so -called white army, who has close ties with Machar.

In response to the fighting since late February in the northeastern state of the Alawi, the Kiir government has detained many Machar party officials, including the Minister of Petroleum and Vice President of the Army.

The Mairez party also said that a military base and two military training centers around Juba have been attacked by government forces since Monday.

Training centers have been established to prepare Kiir’s opposition forces for integration in the unified army, a major ruling for the 2018 Peace Agreement that aims to unify government forces and opposition forces.

None of the accidents were confirmed by the alignment army, Kiir, the SPDF, although they accused Machar’s forces of aggressive maneuvers from a bases on Monday.

Analysts say that Kiir, 73, seeks to ensure the caliphate and hybridization of Machar politically for several months by reshaping the cabinet.

South Sudan, the smallest country in the world, fell in a bloody civil war, shortly after obtaining independence in 2011, where the forces that are in line with Kiir, an ethnic denk, fought those loyal to Machar, an ethnic race.

The conflict killed more than 40,000 people before the peace agreement for the year 2018, and the couple witnessed the government of national unity.

The recent political clashes and tensions between Kiir and Machar have disturbed a lot in Juba.

The Norwegian and German embassies closed, while the British embassies and the United States said that they reduce the minimum employees and urged citizens to leave the country.