The death of General David Majur Dak, Friday March 7 in Nasir, in the state of Haut-Nil (northeast), will it plunge South Sudan into a new civil war? Injured three days earlier when taking the government garrison by the “White Army”a naked militia deemed close to the opposition movement of the vice-president Riek Machar, the officer had refused to surrender. With a few dozen soldiers, he had resisted, refugee inside his armored vehicle, while waiting to be rescued by the United Nations. He finally died, as well as an employee of the UN, when he was about to be evacuated by helicopter.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (Minuss) denounced what “Could constitute a war crime”, requested an investigation and called “All actors to refrain from any new violence”. “It is essential that the parties respect their commitment to maintain the ceasefire and to protect the integrity of the peace agreement”, plead the UN.
Signed in 2018 between President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar as well as other opposition forces, this agreement was intended to put an end to the civil war started in 2013, two years after the independence of the youngest country in the world. The conflict left at least 400,000 dead, but the agreement was only very partially implemented. The creation of the necessary unified forces (NUF), an army made up of government forces and opposition, did not succeed, when it was one of the flagship measures of it.
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