South Sudan is a fraction of the newly independent Sudan on 9 July 2011 and registered with the United Nations on 13 July 2011. This region is directly bordered by Sudan to the north, Ethiopia to the east, Kenya to the southeast, Uganda to the south, Congo to the southwest, and Africa. Central on the west. Since its official independence on July 9, 2011, South Sudan has never felt the slightest bit of enjoying its independence with peace, running its government effectively like other independent countries, its sovereignty is torn apart by civil war, even the international community seems slow in taking a related stance. Events that happened in South Sudan. For the events that occurred in South Sudan, the UN Security Council finally imposed an arms embargo on South Sudan on July 13, 2018. At the time of voting before the issuance of the resolution containing sanctions against South Sudan, the two permanent members of the UN Security Council, namely Russia and China voted to abstain, as did the four non-permanent members of the UN Security Council namely Ethiopia, Bolivia, Equatorial Guinea and Kazakhstan which also chose to abstain. Previously, a similar resolution draft made by the United States (as one of the permanent members of the UN Security Council) was almost rolled out in December 2016, under President Barack Obama's administration, but the effort did not succeed in getting enough votes in the UN Security Council. The UN Security Council on May 30 2019 then extended sanctions against South Sudan for another year, including an arms embargo. Five of the 15 council members abstained from voting, namely Russia, China, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea and South Africa. The move passed because it only required nine positive votes and no veto.