adminJuba — South Sudan’s army yesterday called for international monitors to observe a ceasefire, as it rejected repeated rebel claims of heavy battles in the war-torn country.
Both sides have accused each other of breaking the August 29 ceasefire aimed at ending a brutal 20-month civil war, and the United States has said it is preparing possible new UN sanctions for two more individuals for their role in the continued fighting. Ceasefire monitors from the regional East Africa bloc Igad, which led efforts to negotiate the peace deal, are meant to be monitoring the ceasefire, the eighth to have been agreed since war began in December 2013. But Igad monitors for now lack the resources to monitor the rival forces, fractured into multiple militia units, with the rebels themselves divided. — AFP.
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