NEW YORK, 4 March, 2021 (TON): One of the top UN envoys for South Sudan David Shearer said that despite little progress in the past four years the peace process in South Sudan remains extremely fragile.  

On Wednesday, the media reported citing Shearer that the country has progressed in terms of security and political stability.

"At the end of my four years in South Sudan, I look back with a certain level of comfort about how far the country has come," he told the Security Council in a briefing.

There is a cease-fire, a peace deal, and a transitional government. And local leadership is slowly being installed. The majority of people who flocked to point-of-care sites have either left or now live in newly transitioned camps for internally displaced persons, a result of improved political security, he noted.

As Shearer will leaving his post next month as the special representative of the UN secretary-general and head of the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, he will be replaced by Nicholas Haysom of South Africa.