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Medi Ia Mo Onito Oring G Rep Port United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) Media & Spokesperson Unit Communications & Public Information Office MEDIA MONITORING REPORT WEDNESDAY, 18 DECEMBER 2013 SOUTH SUDAN • South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar denies coup (BBC) • South Sudan ex-VP denies coup attempt, labels Kiir ‘illegal president’ (Sudan Tribune) • Hundreds killed, thousands flee clashes in South Sudan (South China Morning Post with AFFP) • Fighting Spreads Outside South Sudan Capital (Voice of America) • South Sudan: Hundreds Killed In Army Clashes (Sky News) • UK to temporarily withdraw some embassy staff from South Sudan following violence in country (Canada.com via AFP) • South Sudan Vows to Hunt for Former Deputy After Coup (Bloomberg) • Gunfire heard in Juba for second day (IOL News) • E. Equatoria declares curfew as Juba violence continues (Sudan Tribune) • U.N. told up to 500 killed in South Sudan clashes: diplomats (Reuters) • SPLM officials arrested in Warrap over links to Juba clashes (Sudan Tribune) • South Sudan Forces Loyal to Ex-Vice President Take Jonglei Towns (Bloomberg) • South Sudan violence spreads wider (Telegraph) • Governor Urges Citizens To Maintain Peace (Gurtong) • Jonglei capital under attack by SPLA defectors (Radio Tamazuj) • At Least 19 Civilians Killed In Bor Town (Gurtong) • Mutiny forces attack Jonglei military camps (Sudan Tribune) • GLOBAL/REGIONAL • Sudan says Juba unrest won’t impact cooperation agreements (Sudan Tribune) • Turkey issues travel warning to South Sudan (Daily News Turkey) • Kenyans trapped at Juba UN camp (The Standard Digital) • US urges citizens to leave South Sudan amid unrest (Times Live) • Kenyans trapped in Juba fighting appeal for rescue (Daily Nation) NOTE: Reproduction here does not mean that the UNMISS Communications & Public Information Office can vouch for the accuracy or veracity of the contents, nor does this report reflect the views of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan. Highlights South Sudan opposition leader Riek Machar denies coup (BBC) BBC, 18/12/2012 - Fugitive former South Sudanese vice-president Riek Machar has denied government allegations that he tried to stage a coup at the weekend. In a BBC interview, he denied any link with fighting that began on Sunday. Mr Machar, who fell out with President Salva Kiir in July, accused him of "inciting tribal and ethnic violence" to cover his own failings. The UN has said the fighting has claimed hundreds of lives, and warned that it could descend into a civil war. President Kiir has said a group of soldiers supporting Mr Machar had tried to take power by force on Sunday night, but were defeated. He said the clashes began when uniformed personnel opened fire at a meeting of the governing party, the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM). But Mr Machar told the BBC on Wednesday: "There was no attempted coup." He blamed Sunday's fighting on a conflict between members of the presidential guard, and said it spread across parts of the capital, Juba. He added that government troops used the incident to arrest some of his supporters on Monday, and that he himself escaped. "Someone wanted to frame me," he said. "I had to flee. They are hunting me down." The whereabouts of Mr Machar are unclear. He told the BBC he was still in South Sudan and was "not going to leave the country". Details of the fighting have been sketchy, but a meeting of the UN Security Council in New York on Tuesday was told that the clashes were "apparently largely along ethnic lines". French UN ambassador Gerard Araud, who holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council, said up to 20,000 people had taken refuge in the UN mission in Juba. "Some reports are speaking of hundreds of casualties. For the moment we can't confirm this, but in any case it is a heavy toll," Mr Araud told the BBC. He said the conflict had "the potential of a civil war" between the two main ethnic groups, the Dinka and the Nuer. The government has denied that there was an ethnic aspect to the conflict. "If you see the people going with Dr Riek [Machar], some are Dinkas, some are Chol, Nuer and other tribes," said the governor of Unity State, Simon Kun Pouch. (Read More on BBC) South Sudan ex-VP denies coup attempt, labels Kiir ‘illegal president’ Sudan Tribune - 18/12/2013 (LONDON) – South Sudan’s former vice president, Riek Machar, has categorically denied any involvement in an alleged coup attempt in the capital, Juba, saying it was another undemocratic attempt by President Salva Kiir to get rid of his political critics in the party and government. Speaking exclusively to Sudan Tribune for the first time since violence erupted on Sunday, Machar said the events were a misunderstanding between the presidential guards. “There was no coup. What took place in Juba was a misunderstanding between presidential guards within their division. It was not a coup attempt. I have no connection with or knowledge of any coup attempt”, said Machar. He claimed that no official from the ruling Sudan People’s Liberation Movement (SPLM) had any connection with the alleged coup. At a press conference held on Monday, Kiir accused Machar of involvement in Sunday’s attack on a military base in Juba. Unusually clad in full military attire, the president said a group of soldiers allied to Machar and his group attacked the army (SPLA) headquarters near Juba University. 2 “These attacks continued until this morning” (Monday), added Kiir, flanked by his deputy, James Wani Igga, and defence minister Koul Manyang Juuk. The South Sudanese leader described Machar as a “prophet of doom [who] continues to persistently pursue his actions of the past”, referring to the 1991 split in which the latter defected from the then rebel movement during its long civil war with Sudan. “However, I would like to inform you, at the outset, that your government is in full control of the security situation in Juba”, the president said. He also maintained that the SPLM is fully committed to the peaceful and democratic transfer of power, vowing not to allow political power to be transferred through violence. CALLS FOR REFORM However, the former vice-president insists Kiir is simply looking for a way to falsely accuse his detractors in order to frustrate the democratic processes, which Machar and his group has persistently been calling for within the party. Machar told Sudan Tribune that Kiir was continuing to violate the constitution and was “no longer a legal president”. “What we wanted was to democratically transform the SPLM, but Salva Kiir wanted to use the alleged coup attempt in order to get rid of us to control the government and the SPLM. We don’t want him the president of South Sudan anymore”, he said, without elaborating further on his next move. Machar claims that he and a number of his colleagues, who have been detained in connection with the alleged coup plot, are being unfairly victimised. Machar also condemned Kiir’s actions for encouraging or condoning the recent massacres targeting one ethnic group in the nation’s capital in the last three days. On Tuesday, the government announced it was seeking the arrest of Machar and other officials, including suspended SPLM secretary-general Pagan Amum, former Unity governor Taban Deng, as well as former ministers Alfred Lado Gore and Adwok Nyaba. At least 10 South Sudanese officials, mainly ex-ministers, have been arrested in connection with what the government described a failed “coup attempt” in the capital. Hundreds killed, thousands flee clashes in South Sudan South China Morning Post with AFP, 18/12/2013 - Hundreds of people have died and up to 20,000 others have fled to UN bases in days of fierce fighting in South Sudan’s army after an alleged coup bid, officials said. The United States ordered non-essential embassy staff out of the country, the world’s youngest nation and awash with guns after decades of war, amid fears of a descent into wider ethnic violence. In the capital Juba, gunfire still rang out into the early hours of Wednesday morning, a reporter said. “There are people walking in the city this morning, but it would be premature to say things are back to normal,” he said. The government ordered Juba airport to re-open, although regional airlines said they were waiting for security guaranties before allowing flights bound for Juba to take off. “We are waiting for confirmation that the airport is safe,” a Kenya Airways official said. “For the moment it is 50-50”. Many of Juba’s residents have spent the past two days barricaded in their homes, too afraid to move. Others used lulls in the sporadic and often intense battles to grab what belongings they could and flee to safer areas, including UN bases. President Salva Kiir on Monday accused soldiers loyal to his arch-rival, former vice president Riek Machar who was sacked in July, of staging a coup attempt in the oil-rich but deeply impoverished nation, which has struggled with instability since becoming independent in 2011. Machar, in comments published Wednesday, denied any attempt to topple the president, and instead accused Kiir of using the violence to as a pretext to purge any challengers. “What took place in Juba was a misunderstanding between presidential guards within their division, it was not a coup attempt,” he told the Paris-based Sudan Tribune website, in his first public remarks since the fighting started. 3 “Kiir wanted to use the alleged coup attempt in order to get rid of us.” The government said 10 key figures, many of them former ministers, have been arrested in the crackdown, and that others, including Machar, were on the run.
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