Sudan urged to tackle human rights violation

UNITED NATIONS - The UN envoy to South Sudan is urging the country to tackle increased fighting in the southeast and human rights violations by armed groups and government security forces as it marks its second anniversary as an independent nation.

Hilde Johnson told the UN Security Council on Monday that South Sudan has made progress since independence, but the government needs to address the underlying causes of perennial violence, promote national reconciliation and make progress in improving relations with neighbouring Sudan, which is key to the country's development.

South Sudan won independence from Sudan on July 9, 2011 as part of a 2005 peace treaty that ended decades of war between the mainly Muslim north and Christian and animist south that killed 2 million people.


(2013-07-10/enca)