Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, on graphic used for Press TV worldwide satellite news broadcast. Azikiwe is an African affairs analyst, a photo by Pan-African News Wire File Photos on Flickr.
Interview with Abayomi Azikiwe
Fri Dec 20, 2013 2:51PM GMT
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Press TV has conducted an interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, about three Indian peacekeepers killed in an attack on a United Nations base in South Sudan.
What follows is an approximate transcription of the interview.
Press TV: Yesterday we spoke about South Sudan and you explained a bit about the situation there. Certainly I would have imagined it is a bit of escalation to be attacking the UN as well, isn’t it?
Azikiwe: Most definitely. It appears as if the capital of Jonglei state, Bor has been seized by the opposition forces and even the government has admitted that they have lost control of the capital of Jonglei state.
There has also been violence as well in Unity state at one of the major oilfields in that area. So this is a serious escalation of the fighting. In the capital of Juba it is reported that some five hundred people have been killed just over the last three days. So this is a serious conflict and there should be some form of serious mediation in order to resolve this conflict before it deepens even further.
Press TV: And when you speak of mediation, do you see any coming on the horizon?
Azikiwe: Well the former South African President Thabo Mbeki was involved in mediating the differences that still exists between the Republic of Sudan in the North and Republic of South Sudan in the South. He could be a person who has experience in dealing with Sudan who could be dispatched as an envoy to go to Juba to try to mediate the conflict.
Also the United Nations should definitely be involved in some capacity in regard to dealing with this conflict because what is happening in Jonglei is that there have been problems ever since the country was partitioned over two and a half years ago and the problem of displacement of people inside of Jonglei is worsening with thousands of people fleeing the major cities and we are finding some other problems as well in Juba.
So this is something that the international community should definitely be seriously concerned about and make a concerted effort to try to resolve the conflict without further bloodshed.
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