UN warns Security Council of escalating violence, humanitarian collapse in South Sudan

Unidentified Speaker, a representative speaking at the Security Council, warned that recent weeks have seen a sharp escalation of violence in South Sudan, with armed confrontations, reports of aerial bombardment and mass displacement concentrated in places the speaker identified as Zhongli and Upper Nile State. "Attacks on health facilities, medical personnel and humanitarian staff, infrastructure and assets are unacceptable," the representative said, urging safe, predictable humanitarian access nationwide.

The representative told the Council that government sources report more than 280,000 people displaced in Zhongli alone and described large‑scale incidents in which humanitarian barges were attacked and looted while carrying items intended for some 73,000 civilians. The briefing said the country is also facing its first cholera outbreak,…