The world’s newest or say young country stands on the threshold of a new era of violence. We are talking about South Sudan, a country settled in East Africa, which has not been barely a decade and a half. When there was an agreement to share power in 2018, between the President Salva Keer and the first-Vice-President Rek Machar, he ended the five-year battle. About 400,000 people were killed in the violence in five years between 2013 and 2018. Then this agreement established peace. But last week, when the government arrested Rek Machchar, the agreement was effectively ended.

President Salva Keer and the first Vice President Rek Machar have different loyal army and they are fighting among themselves. Because of this, South Sudan is on the verge of war afresh.

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According to the AFP report, experts say that 73 -year -old President Salva Keer is struggling with health problems. In such a situation, they are trying to ensure their succession and make the mind politically.

A humanist based in Juba requested AFP not to print the name, “Succession is the main issue in South Sudan. President Keer is not in good health and his party and government are trying to take power.”

Since February, Packed More than 20 political and military allies have been arrested, some have been kept away from contact. In at least three states, Packed Kir’s colleagues have been made governors by removing loyal governors towards. This is a step that violates the agreement to share the power of 2018.

Daniel Akech, a researcher at the International Crisis Group, told AFP, “The President is doing such work as if there was no compromise.” He said that since joining the government in 2018, Machar has lost public support.

Many people are angry within Kir’s own party that he is presenting his former financial advisor, Benjamin Bol Mail as his chosen successor, who made him Vice President earlier this year. According to The Diplomate report, most people dislike the lyrics, they are “hated”. If Keer leaves the country for his treatment – as is extremely possible – then violence may explode. Many people believe that if the President hands over the reins of power to the Bol Mail, then “there will be an immediate coup”.

Increasing violence in South Sudan

Political stress has turned into conflict in many areas and it is often ethnic in its nature. A military base was captured in the early March by a militia of the youth of the Nuer community in the upper indigo state, situated in the northeast of South Sudan. This militia group is known as the White Army.

At the same time, according to an administrative commissioner of Nasir County, the army responded by firing in the surrounding areas, killing 20 people, mostly women and children.

According to the United Nations, more than 60,000 people have already been displaced in the fight. There have been clashes in other areas, including airstrikes targeted by Machchar’s army near the capital Juba.

Economic crisis and rage within the army

South Sudan is already one of the poorest countries in the world. From above, he has faced a financial crisis last year as the oil exports through a pipeline in the neighboring country Sudan have ended.

The government’s earnings here are about 90 percent of the oil share. According to The Diplomate report, now the production has now fallen from 140,000 to 20,000 barrels.

The government is not getting money. This means that the soldiers have not received payment for more than a year except for a few months’ salary recently. The Diplomat said that Uganda’s forces came in early March in support of President Keer. Then the rumor spread that the army from outside was being paid in the dollar and it further increased the dissatisfaction in South Sudan’s army.

The 2018 peace agreement made it mandatory that work would be done to unite the armies of Kir and Machar. But there has been limited progress in this front.

The United Nations has repeatedly appealed to both sides to maintain the peace process. At the same time, the embassies of Western countries present in the capital Juba have offered arbitration. According to the AFP report, very little attention is being paid to this youngest country in the world. Due to increasing stress, Germany and Norway have already had to close their embassies.

Former Kenya Prime Minister Rella Odinga went to Juba on Friday to help “reduce” stress and met Keer. But he was stopped from meeting with Machar.

This tension has come to light when the country is facing the worst cholera epidemic in the last 20 years. In the last six months, more than 40,000 cases of cholera have been reported inside South Sudan and about 700 deaths have occurred.

Input-AFP

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