UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has reiterated a call for perpetrators of violence in South Sudan to be brought to justice. “All violence, attacks and human rights abuses must end immediately,” Ban’s spokesman said in a statement late on Saturday.
“The secretary general reminds those responsible that they will be held accountable. He calls on the Government and all concerned to ensure the rights and security of civilians are protected,” said the statement, issued in New York.
The Government on Saturday, meanwhile, accused sacked former Vice President and rebel leader Riek Machar of recruiting up to 25,000 young men of the Nuer tribe in eastern Jonglei State.
But rebel spokesman Moses Ruai lat denied the allegation, telling that Machar was “not mobilising his tribe”, South Sudan’s second biggest ethnic group.