First vice president says country is ‘peaceful and quiet’

South Sudan’s new First Vice President Taban Deng Gai is asserting his country is “peaceful and quiet” and moving ahead with reforms following clashes in the capital that killed some 300 people last month. Deng spoke to journalists in Nairobi Wednesday while in town to meet with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta. He accused reporters of […]

South Sudan’s new First Vice President Taban Deng Gai is asserting his country is “peaceful and quiet” and moving ahead with reforms following clashes in the capital that killed some 300 people last month.
Deng spoke to journalists in Nairobi Wednesday while in town to meet with Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta. He accused reporters of falsely reporting that fighting continues in Juba and elsewhere.
“This is not true. This is not true,” said Deng. “The country is in peace; it is quiet in the whole region of Upper Nile. There is no fighting in all the areas of Upper Nile, where I had come from. The crisis that had happened in Wau, arrested redress. There’s peace in Wau now. No fighting at all, around Juba. If there are any skirmishes, it should be somewhere west, somewhere west of the country, in the borders of DRC. Especially the areas of Western Equatoria region.”