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Today, Thursday, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution against the backdrop of the situation in South Sudan, which stipulates the extension of the sanctions regime against this country.
Nine of the fifteen members of the Security Council voted in favor of the resolution, which was put forward by Sweden, and six others abstained, including Russia and China.
It is noteworthy that the civil war broke out in South Sudan less than two years after it gained its secession from Northern Sudan in 2011, and the war between President Salva Kiir Mayadet and his former first vice president, Riek Machar, caused the displacement of millions inside and outside South Sudan, in addition to the killing of thousands of civilian citizens. .
Mayadet and Machar signed a peace agreement in August 2015, but it quickly collapsed in less than a year, doubling the humanitarian crisis in South Sudan.