South Sudan Risks Returning to ‘Full-Scale’ War, UN Says

South Sudan’s political and military leaders are dismantling a 2018 peace agreement, driving the country toward “full-scale war” and making elections this year increasingly unlikely.

Officials in the oil-rich country are systematically undermining the deal that ended the five-year civil war, weakening key governance and security protections, the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said Friday. That’s putting civilians at serious risk of mass atrocities, and major human rights and humanitarian law violations, it added.