Unity state

UN deploys more peacekeepers to South Sudan’s Unity state

Nearly 1.76 million people have been displaced internally since fighting broke out in 2013 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and the former vice president he sacked, Riek Machar.
Head of UN mission David Shearer: “What we are witnessing on the ground is the deliberate killing of civilians as well as the sexual violation and abduction of women and children.”

By Reuters · 17 May 2018