The U.S. State Department has ordered nonemergency government personnel to leave South Sudan’s capital as tension escalates because of fighting in the north.
The travel advisory issued stated that fighting was ongoing and “weapons are readily available to the population.”
Reports say, an armed group clashed with the country’s army, leading to the arrests of two government ministers and a deputy army chief allied to former rebel turned vice president Riek Machar.
Meanwhile, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said that the violence in the north and tension in Juba was “threatening to derail” South Sudan’s peace agreement.