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Browsing: South Sudan civil war 2024 latest updates
- UN says South Sudan is experiencing mass displacement of communities, rising tensions and attacks on civilians.
- On March 4th, White Army – a youth militia – overran an army barracks of South Sudan in Nasir, within Upper Nile province.
- Since then, over 60,000 people have fled the area fearing retaliatory attacks. Armed groups are reportedly mobilizing children to wage war.
An escalating wave of mass displacement of people, rising tensions coupled with indiscriminate attacks on civilians is fast pushing South Sudan on the brink of a civil war.
In a briefing on Monday, Nicholas Haysom, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, warned that the East African country is at a risk of an all out war if measures are not put into place to deescalate tensions.
While calling on all parties involved in the conflict to commit to peace, Haysom warned that, “A conflict would erase all …