United Nations warned South Sudan, to take immediate action unless South Sudan

Ogwu said Nigeria backed an arms embargo and stressed the need for unity in the council.

Sources in IGAD have confirmed plans for the deal to be signed in Juba on Wednesday, with Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta, Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and the chief mediator Seyoum Mesfin due to attend. China North Industries Corp., or Norinco, provided arms that included 100 anti-tank guided missile launchers, 1,200 missiles, about 2,400 grenade launchers and 24 million rounds of various types of ammunition.

Ateny however said that the South Sudan government was still unhappy with the accord, drawn up by the regional bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

South Sudan was plunged into a civil war in December 2013 when a political crisis sparked fighting between forces loyal to president Salva Kiir and rebels allied with his former deputy Riek Machar. It had none before then.

The United Nations has warned South Sudan that it would take “immediate action” if the President Salva Kiir does not sign a peace deal with rebels.

He added that August 17, 2015 – the date President Kiir had requested more time to sign the current proposed peace agreement – “was just the most recent of at least a dozen times since early 2014 that one or both parties had failed to adhere to an internationally sanctioned deadline for progress toward ending the war”.

The UN experts found that a government offensive in oil-producing Unity State between April and July this year had been “intent on rendering communal life unviable and prohibiting any return to normalcy following the violence”.

FIDH recalls that thousands of civilians have already been killed in the conflict, in many cases targeted for their ethnicity or perceived political allegiances.

South Sudan is the world’s newest country, having seceded from Sudan and gaining its independence in 2011.

The report says the panel has started to investigate “the financing channels used by the government and the opposition to prosecute the war and into those individuals and entities who gain financially from the continuation of the conflict”.

“Let’s see how it evolves, maybe the main goal (of the draft resolution) was to exert pressure”, he said on Tuesday.