The alert, transmitted on Tuesday by Haysom, who is also the head of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), assures that the political and security crisis of the last weeks can end the peace agreement signed in 2018.

Haysom also assured that the peace process and its mechanisms are the basis for the restoration of concord and are on the verge of collapse, so the necessary measures must be taken for its implementation.

Recently changes in opposition figures in the Upper Nile state governance, stipulated in the 2018 Peace Accords and decided by South Sudanese President Salva Kiir, created an outbreak of violence in Nasir city, from which the current wave of arrests was unleashed.

After several years of civil war in South Sudan, the warring political leaders signed a peace agreement in 2018, and agreed in August 2022 to extend the transitional period, envisioning a February 2025 conclusion, with elections scheduled for December this year after several delays. ef/iff/mem/fvt