Sudan on Monday reiterated its supportive stance to South Sudan's stability and resolution to the armed conflict there through dialogue, noting that war would lead to uncalculated consequences, said Sudanese foreign minister.
The UN spokesperson's office said on Thursday that aid organizations need a financing of 166 million U.S. dollars now to save lives amid continuing violence in South Sudan.
The United States on Sunday evacuated its citizens from Bor, the capital of South Sudan's Jonglei state engulfed in armed conflicts, after a failed attempt a day earlier.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon said Thursday that he was "deeply concerned about continued reports of growing violence in many parts of South Sudan, human rights abuses and killings fueled by ethnic tensions."
South Sudan still faces enormous challenges in extending government's authority, addressing inter-communal clashes and human rights abuses, said a top UN envoy for the world's newest nation Monday.
Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir on Monday threatened to stop South Sudan's oil exportation through Sudan's pipelines if Juba continued supporting the rebels of the Revolutionary Front in South Kordofan.
A group of Sudan's Central Reserve Forces in Sudan's west Darfur region on Sunday pulled out of their camp with weapons and staged a "mutiny," the official SUNA news agency reported.