{"id":27626,"date":"2016-08-11T02:29:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/s-sudan-turns-down-proposal-to-take-more-un\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T02:28:49","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T02:28:49","slug":"s-sudan-turns-down-proposal-to-take-more-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/s-sudan-turns-down-proposal-to-take-more-un\/","title":{"rendered":"S Sudan turns down proposal to take more UN troops"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Government claims US proposal to boost troop numbers will lead to UN colonisation of South Sudan and beyond.}<\/p>\n

South Sudan has rejected a proposal by the United States for the UN Security Council to send 4,000 additional troops to the country, claiming it “seriously undermines” its sovereignty.<\/p>\n

Michael Makuei, a government spokesman, said on Wednesday that the proposal that could be voted on Friday by the Security Council was giving the UN the ability to govern.<\/p>\n

“If South Sudan is turned into a UN protectorate, then this is not the end of the game but the beginning,” Makuei said.<\/p>\n

“It will begin with South Sudan, but it will end up with all of us being turned into new colonies.”<\/p>\n

Under the US proposal, the force would be part of a 12,000-strong UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, known as UNMISS, which has been on the ground since the country gained independence from Sudan in 2011.<\/p>\n

The regional force would protect the airport and promote “safe and free movement” in and out of the capital.<\/p>\n

If UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon reports within a month that authorities have blocked the regional force, an arms embargo could be imposed on South Sudan in a vote suggested in the proposal.<\/p>\n

An East African political body, IGAD, last week said South Sudan had agreed to a regional force, but Makuei on Wednesday disagreed and said the government had not been consulted.<\/p>\n

{{Passports seized}}<\/p>\n

Yasmina Bouziane, a spokeswoman for the UN mission, told the AP news agency that South Sudan’s government has seized at least 86 passports of UN workers and imposed other restrictions that were a “clear violation” of the UN’s operating agreement with the authorities.<\/p>\n

In addition, the UN World Food Programme has had its flight clearances revoked for all food drops coming from neighbouring Ethiopia, said spokesman George Fominyen. <\/p>\n

South Sudan’s Foreign Minister, Deng Alor, has called it a temporary safety measure.<\/p>\n

Deadly fighting in the capital, Juba, last month raised fears of a renewed civil war after an August 2015 peace deal and worsened a humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

Riek Machar, the rebel leader and former first vice president, fled during the fighting and said he would return only when regional peacekeepers secured the capital.<\/p>\n

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