Head of UN mission calls for more peacekeepers as security council told that the nation is far from prepared for its first election as an independent country
United Nations peacekeepers pass displaced South Sudanese near a camp in Malakal. UN troops are based at 27 sites but a review said 36 were needed.United Nations peacekeepers pass displaced South Sudanese near a camp in Malakal. UN troops are based at 27 sites but a review said 36 were needed.
South Sudan is preparing to stage its first election as an independent country. What should have been a unifying coming-of-age moment for theThe vote was conceived as the finale to a peace agreement signed five years ago to pull the nation from aUN peacekeepers near a camp in Bentiu. As well as its own displaced people, South Sudan is hosting 700,000 refugees from the civil war in Sudan.
“I want to underscore that the prospect of a second war in this region of the kind we’re witnessing in Sudan would be absolutely catastrophic,” Haysom says.Get a different world view with a roundup of the best news, features and pictures, curated by our global development teamHe is not alone in worrying that against such a tumultuous backdrop, South Sudan is not ready to hold its first post-independence election.
“We don’t know what electoral system there’ll be or whether there’ll be voter registration what the complaints machinery will be.” Lt Gen Mohan Subramanian, the Unmiss force commander, described his troops as operating in an “election-related politically charged atmosphere” and that a country awash with 320,000 weapons had entered a “critical period for its peace and tranquility”.
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