UN Undersecretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous called on the UN Security Council to impose an arms embargo on South Sudan.

Al Arabiya news channel quoted the UN official as saying in statements Wednesday "I think an arms embargo should happen now and that's even very late." 

"The rainy season is coming to a close and that has frequently been the time of the year when people go back to military operations," Ladsous said.

The council is weighing its next steps in South Sudan after the government in Juba showed little cooperation with UN plans to deploy a 4,000-strong regional force.

In August, the UNSC voted to deploy the force in Juba and warned that if the South Sudanese government opposed the plan it would face an arms embargo.

Source: MENA