There is international concern over the growing tension in South Sudan as cracks emerge in the country’s ruling coalition.
Recent clashes in the northeastern Upper Nile State between forces allied to the president and first vice president are threatening a fragile power-sharing agreement.
The unity government, led by President Salva Kiir, with former rebel leader, Riek Machar as First Vice President, was formed in 2018.
This followed a peace deal that ended the country’s five-year civil war that cost nearly 400,000 lives.
An armed group clashed with the country’s army on Tuesday, leading to the arrests of two government ministers and a deputy army chief allied to Machar.