UNSC urges all parties in South Sudan to end fighting

The text, which called for an end to violence against civilians and voiced concern over the use of barrel bombs, was adopted by 12 votes in favor while Russia, China, and Pakistan abstained.

Rights groups have recently sounded the alarm over the deadly use of improvised and unguided explosives in the north of the country.

Thursday’s resolution also extended the UN’s peacekeeping mission, founded in 2011 to consolidate peace, until next April.