UNITED NATIONS: France and the United States called Wednesday for the UN Security Council to consider sanctions against South Sudan over spiraling violence in the country's civil war, diplomats said.
US ambassador Samantha Power relayed Washington's position in a closed-door meeting of the 15-member Council, diplomats said, and France's Gerard Araud told reporters before the session that it was time to think about sanctions against those responsible.
"I think we should consider sanctions because it is horrendous," he said.
In December the Security Council agreed to almost double the size of the UN peacekeeping force in troubled South Sudan, but few of the extra troops have actually arrived.
"Maybe we have to face the fact that we can't cooperate with this government anymore... We need some soul-searching about what the UN should do in South Sudan," said Araud.
On Tuesday, the White House expressed horror at the "abomination" of the violence in South Sudan, where rebels have been accused of massacring hundreds of civilians.
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