South Sudan Imposes Curfew After Anti-Sudanese Riots
The Facts
Police in South Sudan imposed on Friday a nationwide curfew from 6 pm to 6 am daily until further notice in a bid to restore calm and security after a night of looting and violence targeting Sudanese nationals on Thursday.
As of Saturday, the official death toll from the unrest was at 12 — three fatalities in the capital Juba and another nine, including that of seven Sudanese nationals, in Awail — while 551 Sudanese nationals had been rescued in Juba.
The Spin
Narrative A
As people in South Sudan have targeted the hundreds of thousands of Sudanese refugees living in the country, it's very unlikely that a curfew alone will restore security — if anything, such a move makes it harder to report fatalities across South Sudan. Local authorities must step in decisively to address this issue.
Narrative B
Innocent civilians — whether from South Sudan or Sudan — are the ones most affected by the conflict between the SAF and RSF, and these latest developments further expose that. Hopefully, the fraternal ties connecting Sudanese and South Sudanese people will always prevail over extremist groups.
