Worrying signs of regression in South Sudan
South Sudan is in “alarming regression” as clashes in recent weeks in the northeast threaten to undo years of progress towards peace, the UN commission on human rights in the country has claimed, according to the New Arab on March 9th.
A delicate power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar is in peril after clashes between their allied forces in the country’s Upper Nile State.
On Friday, a United Nations helicopter attempting to rescue soldiers in the state was attacked, killing one crew member and wounding two others.
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