00:00When we arrive there, don't spare an elderly, don't spare a chicken, don't spare a house or
00:04anything. These are the words of General Johnson Ohlone during the deployment of his troop in
00:09Jonglei State, according to our colleagues from Radio Tamazouj. His troops are being deployed
00:15to stop the advance of rebel groups loyal to Riek Machar. The former vice president and leader
00:21of the opposition is currently being held in Juba, the capital. He's accused of being behind
00:26attacks on the South Sudanese military in 2025. The trial, which the opposition are seeing
00:33as a legal assault on their leader, it's sort of like the symbolic rallying point for them.
00:41But also there are other factors, including government has been actually fighting with
00:45the opposition in Upper Nile, bombarding them from the air. And some of the areas were actually
00:51bombs before the forces merge out to take garrison towns in Northern Jonglei.
00:58Large scale fighting is imminent. On Sunday, the South Sudanese army gave 48 hours to civilians
01:05to escape from three different counties and even ordered NGOs to withdraw. I can tell you
01:10that in South Sudan, many people are bracing for the worst.
01:13The impact is going to be massive. This is not exactly a replication of the 2013 civil war.
01:20The war we are seeing now, it's pretty decentralized. The leader of the opposition is just symbolic leader.
01:28As we speak, he's incommunicado. He's been under house arrest. He's undergoing trial in Juba.
01:35So he cannot even communicate with the commanders. And yet these commanders, the grassroots, are the ones mobilizing and they are coordinating.
01:44Since the beginning of the year, 180,000 people have been displaced because of the conflict.
01:50More than a decade after its independence, South Sudan is still struggling to achieve peace.
01:55Between 2013 and 2018, almost 400,000 people died during the civil war.
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02:05That's a great deal.
02:07So hahaha, thank God.
02:11So, again, in this order, let's go.
02:18So, that's what I said.
02:27That's the instabilityyle.
02:30I said,
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