Uganda has deployed special forces to the capital of southern Sudan, to help President Salvi Kiir to “secure him,” said Uganda Muhooozi Kainerugaba military chief.
The move comes as the tensions escalate between Kiir and his deputy Riek Machara, raising the fear that their fragile peace agreement could crash and the conflict could continue.
Gen Kainerugaba did not give the reasons for arranging the neighboring country, but said that any move against Kiir was “proclaiming a war against Uganda”.
“We will protect the entire territory of southern Sudan as if it was ours,” ” Added on the social media platform x.
The Government of South Sudan has not yet commented on the deployment.
The concern about the security situation in South Sudan is being set up, and now on Saturday he has ordered an evacuation of his staff who is not the case from the country.
Last week, Deputy Chief of the Army and Two Ministers – all Machara Allies – arrested security forces, called by the opposition spokesman “by a” serious violation “of the peace agreement.
One of the ministers has been published ever since.
The arrests followed the conflict in the state of Gornja Nil between the Government forces and the militia known as the White Army.
He struggled with Machar during the Civil War, which broke out in 2013 after the struggle for power between him and Kiira.
This led to heavy fighting in Juba, and Kiir accused Machar of planning a coup.
Machar denied the allegations, but South Sudan then entered the civil war in which more than 400,000 people were killed.
The Power Division Agreement for 2018 stopped the fight between the two of them, but the key elements of the agreement were not conducted by the new constitution, the election and reunification of the armed groups into one army.
