The Security Council extends the time to impose sanctions on South Sudan

The resolution called for sanctions against South Sudan to be extended until May 31, 2025, and to extend the mandate of the Panel of Experts of the South Sudan Sanctions Committee until July 1, 2025.

The United Nations Security Council imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan in July 2018 following renewed violence in July 2016 that shattered a 2015 peace deal signed to end years of conflict in the country.

While some members of the Council believe that the sanctions are necessary, others have expressed their concern about the sanctions that adversely affect the security situation in South Sudan.

Violence erupted in the country at the end of 2013, two years after secession from Sudan, when President Salva Kiir, from the Dinka tribe, fired Vice President Riek Machar, from the rival Nuer tribe, who was accused of plotting to overthrow the government.

The two have now signed several agreements to end the war, fueled by long-running ethnic tensions, which is estimated to have killed more than 400,000 people.