PRETORIA – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has appealed to his South African counterpart Cyril Ramaphosa to help repatriate home its citizens who are currently in China following the outbreak Coronavirus.
The government in Juba said this week that South Sudan citizens living in China were safe and none was infected with the deadly virus which has now been declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global emergency.
Speaking to Sudans Post this afternoon, a member of Kiir’s entourage in Pretoria said the South Sudanese head of state has asked Ramaphosa to help in the repatriation of its citizens from China.
“The President has asked President Cyril Ramaphosa to help in the returning of our citizens in China because of the outbreak of this Chinese disease,” the official said on condition of anonymity.
