GENEVA: The UN rights chief voiced alarm Friday at the deteriorating situation in South Sudan, calling for “urgent action” to avert a return to full-scale civil war there.
“Human rights monitoring provides a warning system. That system is flashing red for South Sudan,” Volker Turk told the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
“We need urgent action to preserve the peace agreement and prevent fragmentation and cycles of retaliation that could herald a return to all-out civil war,” he said.