{"id":296404,"date":"2025-06-02T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=296404"},"modified":"2025-05-30T05:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T04:46:19","slug":"south-sudan-continued-disintegration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/06\/south-sudan-continued-disintegration\/","title":{"rendered":"South Sudan: Continued Disintegration"},"content":{"rendered":"

On 23 May 2025, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, gave a stark warning about the rapidly deteriorating human rights situation in the state of South Sudan.\u00a0 He stated that “The escalating hostilities in South Sudan portend a real risk of further exacerbating the already dire human rights and humanitarian situation.”\u00a0 It is estimated that some 125,000 persons have been displaced within the country between March and mid-April 2025.\u00a0 In addition, there are refugees present fleeing the armed conflict in the state of Sudan.\u00a0 South Sudan is filled with arms from the long years of civil war: 1956-1972 and 1982-2005 between the north – largely Muslim and Arabized and the south which followed traditional tribal religions with southern leaders largely Christian.\u00a0 In 2011, there was a referendum in which southern Sudan voted to become the independent state of South Sudan.\u00a0 The Association of World Citizens was among the NGO observers of the independence referendum.<\/p>\n

Since independence, political life has been structured by the tensions between the President Salva Kiir, and the Vice-president, Rick Machar.\u00a0 There was an armed conflict between the two from December 2013 and August 2015 in which many persons were killed.\u00a0 There were multiple violations of international humanitarian law and human rights abuses.\u00a0 In addition to the forces under the control of the two political leaders, there are a host of armed militias usually based on ethnic-clanic structures.<\/p>\n

The United Nations and the African Union have made efforts to reach peace agreements among the parties, but the provisions of the peace agreements have not been put into practice.\u00a0 There is a lack of trust on all sides.\u00a0 It is difficult to see how progress can be made given the intensity of the resentments.\u00a0 There is no doubt a need for new leadership, but there are no signs of any leaders leaving the scene.\u00a0 Elections are not in the style of the country.\u00a0 South Sudan is a situation which merits observation and reconciliation efforts when possible.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a> Ren\u00e9 Wadlow is a member of the <\/em>TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a>. He <\/em>is President of the Association of World Citizens, an international peace organization with consultative status with ECOSOC, the United Nations organ facilitating international cooperation and problem-solving in economic and social issues<\/em>, and <\/em>editor of <\/em>Transnational Perspectives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 23 May 2025, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk stated that “The escalating hostilities in South Sudan portend a real risk of further exacerbating the already dire human rights and humanitarian situation.”\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":244689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[237,2479,101,100,2819,99,128,92],"class_list":["post-296404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-transcend-members","tag-africa","tag-civil-war","tag-cultural-violence","tag-direct-violence","tag-south-sudan","tag-structural-violence","tag-sudan","tag-violent-conflict"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":296405,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296404\/revisions\/296405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}