South Sudan on brink of renewed civil war, UN warns | United Nations News

Building tension and violence threatens to unravel the peace deal that halted ethnic conflict in 2018.

South Sudan is on the brink of a renewed civil war as violence between rival factions escalates, the United Nations has warned.

The situation in the country is “dire” said Nicholas Haysom, head of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), late on Monday, as tension between forces allied with President Salva Kiir and those of Vice President Riek Machar continues to build.

Efforts to…