UNSC asks neighboring countries for help on S. Sudan

United Nations: The United Nations Security Council pressed South Sudan’s neighbors to help end renewed fighting in the capital, asking for additional peacekeepers.

In a unanimous declaration yesterday, the council’s 15 member countries also demanded that President Salva Kiir and his Vice President Riek Machar “do their utmost to control their respective forces, urgently end the fighting and prevent the spread of violence, and genuinely commit themselves to the full and immediate implementation of the peace agreement, including the permanent ceasefire and redeployment of military forces from Juba.

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