Conflict complicates S. Sudan’s EAC entry

>After years of fighting everyone believed that Burundi will be the last country to plunge into internal clashes in East Africa. But it seems that those who thought so are mistaken and Burundi is now proving them wrong.

More than a million people have been forced out of their homes since the South Sudan conflict began in December, the UN says.

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South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar sign a deal, committing to end a conflict that has devastated the country.

James Copnall looks at the civil war conflict in South Sudan, a year on.

The world is at a loss. Its newest nation is five months into a brutal and intractable conflict that has triggered a humanitarian crisis that the UN has warned could be more serious than anything Africa has seen since the Ethiopian famine three decades ago.

Elections in Sudan will be suspended in some areas in the troubled region of south Kordofan where the government is fighting the rebels, the national elections commission announced on Tuesday.

South Sudan President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival rebel chief Riek Machar said Monday they accepted mutual responsibility for a 10-month civil war in which thousands of people have been killed.

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Sexual violence key feature of continuing conflict in South Sudan
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UNITED NATIONS (Xinhua) -- Sexual violence has become a key feature of the continuing conflict in South Sudan, a senior UN official told reporters here Monday, while affirming that the widespread rape could ultimately be stopped through greater political ...
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