Seven killed in the South Sudanian hospital and market bombs, says charity organization

At least seven people were killed after a hospital and a market in South Sudan were bombarded, as a medical charity said when the fears of returning to the civil war grow.

Doctors without borders (MSF) said that helicopter canon ships dropped a bomb on the pharmacy of the hospital, in which he was running in Old Fangak, Jonglei, and burned down before shot on the city for 30 minutes. A drone then bombed a local market, said MSF.

The hospital is the only one in Fangak County who has more than 110,000 inhabitants, said MSF, and all medical care was destroyed.

The charity organization called the attack in which 20 people were injured, a “clear violation of international humanitarian law”.

The MSF spokesman Mamman Mustapha informed the new BBC program that the charity was still trying to determine the facts, but the local witnesses had said that the aircraft were “helicopter” of government troops “.

“With our logo, the hospital is clearly marked as a” hospital “,” he said. “We also shared our coordinates for all warfare parties in the region, so that the hospital should be known as a hospital at both parties.”

There was no immediate comment from the South Sudan government. The BBC contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In the past few weeks, Nicholas Haysom, who heads the UN mission in South Sudan, has warned that the country “rests on the sidelines of a return to the full civil war”.

These concerns were enthusiastic about an escalating feud between President Salva Kiir and Vice President Riek Machar.

Hours before the hospital bombing of the hospital, the head of the army, Paul Majok Nang, promised punitive beats after several load barges had been kidnapped on a river.

He accused these attacks on a militia associated with Vice President Machar, who did not comment on the claim.

In March, Machar was arrested with several of his employees and accused of taking up a rebellion.

The government recently listed the counties that they are considered hostile – in other words that are allied with Machar.

This increased the suspicion that the South Sudan could head for another conflict with the two largest ethnic groups in the country.

The South Sudan achieved independence from Sudan in 2011, but two years later a civil war broke out when President Kiir Machar, as Vice President, dismissed and accused him of having planned a coup.

The following conflict, which has largely fought for ethnic boundaries between supporters of the two guides, led an estimated 400,000 deaths and 2.5 million people who were forced from their houses – more than one fifth of the population.

In 2018, a peace agreement was achieved and a unit government that was forged with the same two men at the top, but elections that were to be called since then have not happened.

The peace agreement should also see the end of all militias and the formation of a united army – but that didn't happen, and many armed groups are still loyal to different politicians.

The current crisis was triggered at the beginning of this year when the militia of the White Army, which was allied with Machar during the civil war, broke up with the army in the state of Upper Nile and crossed a military base in Nasir.

Then, in March, there was a UN helicopter who tried to evacuate troops under fire and left several dead, including a high-ranking army general.

Law groups called for the military to end civilian areas.

Additional reporting from Yemisi Adegoke & Nichola Mandil