The head of the U.N mission in South Sudan, Nicholas Haysom, said following reports of the detention of Machar all parties should “exercise restraint and uphold the Revitalized Peace Agreement.”
South Sudan's main opposition party says peace deal has collapsed after arrest of its leader
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Calling the situation unfolding in the country “dire,” Nicholas Haysom said international efforts to broker a peaceful solution can only succeed if President Salva Kiir and his rival-turned-vice president, Riek Machar, are willing to engage “and put the interests of their people ahead of their own.”
South Sudan teeters on the edge of renewed civil war, U.N. envoy says
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