We all call on all sides in order to abide by the conditions placed in the 2018 Revitalized Peacefulness Agreement. Each skipped implementation benchmark further phone calls into question the political commitment of South Sudan’s leaders to end the transitional period in two years. Inaction now will lead to more innocent South Sudanese life lost and a humanitarian situation that continues to worsen along with each month. An enduring, nation-wide peace is the only way to address South Sudan’s appalling human rights and humanitarian education situation.
Members of the Troika and EU are deeply concerned by an escalation in violence within Upper Nile and Jonglei, South Sudan, where there were reports of scores of civilians killed and around 50, 000 displaced. These reviews of killings, homes and livelihoods burned and destroyed, and sexual and gender-based violence, including against minors, are horrifying and are unable to go unaddressed. The effect of this violence on an currently dire humanitarian situation is certainly further devastating vulnerable towns and their access to health insurance and education services. It really is clear that South Sudan’s transitional leaders bear a share of the responsibility for the escalation of this violence, plus primary responsibility for ending it. The Troika and EU urgently ask South Sudan’s transitional frontrunners to act now to end the particular violence and protect civilians.
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The text of the following statement was released by the Government authorities of the United States of America, Norwegian, and the United Kingdom (the Troika) and the European Union.
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We call on all South Sudanese specialists to allow and facilitate the particular safe access and delivery of humanitarian assistance to Top Nile and Jonglei State, as well as in other conflict locations in the country and to the more than 9. 4 million individuals in need of aid across Southern Sudan.
