Gunmen in South Sudan have raped girls, seized boys to become soldiers and torched towns in some of the heaviest fighting seen in the 17-month-long civil war, the United Nations said Tuesday. Over 300,000 civilians have been left without "life-saving aid" in the **rthern battleground state of Unity, after the UN and aid agencies pulled out due to a surge in fighting, with over 100,000 forced to flee their homes. The violence is some of the worst in months, as government forces push South from the state capital Bentiu into an opposition zone around the town of Leer, home to some of the country's once lucrative oil fields. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also withdrawn staff from Leer and warned that escalating fighting between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar was forcing thousands of civilians to flee for their lives yet again.
05-21-2015, 01:11 PM
'Girls raped, boys abducted' as South Sudan battle rages
Gunmen in South Sudan have raped girls, seized boys to become soldiers and torched towns in some of the heaviest fighting seen in the 17-month-long civil war, the United Nations said Tuesday. Over 300,000 civilians have been left without "life-saving aid" in the **rthern battleground state of Unity, after the UN and aid agencies pulled out due to a surge in fighting, with over 100,000 forced to flee their homes. The violence is some of the worst in months, as government forces push South from the state capital Bentiu into an opposition zone around the town of Leer, home to some of the country's once lucrative oil fields. The International Committee of the Red Cross has also withdrawn staff from Leer and warned that escalating fighting between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar was forcing thousands of civilians to flee for their lives yet again.
العرض الشجري