Germany temporarily shuts embassy in South Sudan amid fears of civil war

Germany has temporarily closed its embassy successful South Sudan's superior Juba due to the fact that of rising tensions that person brought the East African state to the verge of civilian war, the German overseas ministry said connected Saturday.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir this week sacked the politician of Upper Nile state, wherever clashes person escalated betwixt authorities troops and an taste militia helium accuses of allying with his rival, First Vice President Riek Machar.

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The standoff has heightened concerns that the world's newest federation could descent backmost into struggle immoderate 7 years aft its emergence from a civilian warfare that killed hundreds of thousands of people.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir Mayardit prepares for a radical photograph during the opening of the 38th Ordinary Session of the Heads of State and Government of the African Union astatine the African Union Commission (AUC) office successful Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Feb. 15, 2025.  (Reuters/Tiksa Negeri/File Photo)

"After years of fragile peace, South Sudan is erstwhile again connected the brink of civilian war," the German overseas ministry wrote connected x.

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"President Kiir and Vice President Machar are plunging the state into a spiral of violence. It's their work to extremity this senseless unit & yet instrumentality the bid agreement."

South Sudan's United Nations peacekeeping chief, Nicholas Haysom, has besides said helium is acrophobic the state is "on the brink of relapse into civilian war".