The German Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Germany temporarily closed its embassy in the South Sudan capital of Juba as tensions erupted the East African country into the Civil War crisis.
South Sudan President Salva Kiel was fired as Governor of Upper Nile this week. There, clashes between government forces and ethnic ethnic groups condemned his alliance with his rival, First Vice President Leek Machar.
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The standoff raised concerns that the world's latest country could return to conflict about seven years after it emerged from a civil war that killed hundreds of thousands of people.
South Sudan President Salva Kier Mayaldit will prepare group photos during the opening of the 38th ordinary session at the African Union Committee (AUC) Headquarters (AUC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on February 15, 2025. (Reuters/Tixa Negeri/File Photo)
“After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is once again on the brink of civil war,” the German Foreign Ministry wrote about X.
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“President Kiel and Vice President Macher are plunging the country into a swirl of violence. It is their responsibility to end this pointless violence and ultimately implement a peace agreement.”
Nicholas Haysom, UN peacekeeping director in South Sudan, also said he was concerned that he was “on the crisis of a recurrence of civil war.”
