The United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday urges the 15-member council to impose an arms embargo and other sanctions on South Sudan, saying the global community should not wait for more South Sudanese to die before it acts.
Haley warned the council on Tuesday that 5.5 million people half of South Sudan's population face "life-threatening hunger if nothing changes soon".
The Human Rights Watch has urged Kenyan and South Sudanese governments to release information on the disappearance of a South Sudanese opposition official and an activist.
Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have been killed, with more than two million displaced and another 4.6 million left severely food insecure since December 2013.
In March, a United Nations inquiry found the country is experiencing ethnic cleansing and the conditions for genocide are present.
"We must tell the South Sudanese government that we are not going to put up with this anymore".
She also blasted deadlock among Security Council members on how to deal with the civil war in the country that gained independence from Sudan in 2011.
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Despite the peace agreement, South Sudan slipped back into conflict due to renewed clashes between rival forces - the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) loyal to President Salva Kiir and the SPLA in Opposition backing former First Vice-President Riek Machar.
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He stressed that a political settlement is the only way to end the conflict and expressed hope that the United Nations, the African Union and an eight-member regional group, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, can join forces to promote negotiations. "It is the result of killing humanitarian workers", Haley said.
The ambassador however did not specify whether the United States would present a resolution to impose new measures on South Sudan, now in its fourth year of war.
"Despite what appears to be attempts by the parties to achieve victory through military means, a political solution is the only way forward for South Sudan", he said.
He stressed that "to create political will for the parties to end hostilities and build peace, the global community must speak with one voice (and) the African Union, the Security Council and IGAD must be united in dealing with the parties".
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