South Sudan's arrest of Gabriel Duup Lam breaks the peace deal, the opposition says

The army general's army general of South Sudan's main opposition is a “serious violation” of a peace deal, which ended a five -year civil war, a spokesman for the opposition told the BBC.

Gen Gabriel Duop Lam was arrested earlier this week, along with other senior officials of the Sudan people's liberation movement in opposition (SPLM-IO).

All allies of Vice President Rick Machar are detained, whose break with President Salva Kiir caused a devastating war in 2013.

On Thursday morning, the Machar spokesman said SPLM-Io did not know how their employees were or where they were behaving.

“We are doing our best to avoid escalation of the situation, but we need our partners in peace to demonstrate political will to ensure that this country will not return to war again,” Puok said and the two Balwangs to the BBC Newsday program.

President Kiir insisted that South Sudan would not return to war, government spokesman Michael Macue told reporters in the capital Juba on Wednesday.

Macue added that opposition data were arrested because they were “in conflict with the law”.

South Sudan is the most nation in the world after separating from Sudan in 2011. But only two years later, a civil war broke out when Kiir fired his entire office and accused Machar of inciting an unsuccessful coup.

After five years, with 400,000 lives lost and 2.5 million people forced by their homes, a peace deal was agreed in 2018.

But since then it has been fulfilled.

Gen. Lam runs the military wing of the opposition party, which is yet to be integrated into the army. He was removed on Tuesday.

Another ally of Mahar, Puts Kahl Chol, was taken by the security forces in the middle of the night.

Machar's house in the capital Juba was surrounded by troops from the army of South Sudan overnight before being drawn later.

All other senior military officials related to the Machar are placed under house arrest, the BBC of the BBC.

The arrests follow reports that the White Army militia has seized a strategic city in the state of the Upper Nile near the Ethiopian border after clashes with government troops.

The White Army struggled with a Machar during the Civil War.

Some of the army, loyal to Kiir, has accused Mahar's allies of supporting rebels.

Machar's spokesman told the BBC that the current fighting between the White Army and the security forces would “be avoided” if the leadership of the national army obeyed the peace agreement.

The UN and the African Union have warned that violence in this area can potentially spread.

The Ter Manyang, the head of the Juba -based Center for Peace and Advocacy, told Reuters that fighting in this area could endanger the peace deal.

“The country is likely to slide into war unless the situation is governed by the country's senior leadership,” he said.

The country has never held an election – now they have to be held in 2026 after years of delay.