UNITED NATIONS - The UN Security Council has urged South Sudan’s government to take immediate steps to allow a new regional force to deploy in Juba as it weighed imposing an arms embargo. "They called on the government to finalize with the United Nations the modalities for the deployment," he told reporters. In the resolution, the council threatened to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan if the government blocks the regional force or impedes the work of UN peacekeepers. Ban said he would report to the council in October on whether South Sudan ’s government is cooperating. South Sudan descended into war in December 2013 after Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup.

Source: Viet Nam News September 15, 2016 04:07 UTC