U.S. to evacuate some citizens from South Sudan after clashes


  • World
  • Wednesday, 18 Dec 2013

JUBA (Reuters) - The United States will start evacuating non-essential embassy staff and citizens from South Sudan on Wednesday after army factions clashed, killing up to 500 people and raising fears of a broader civil conflict in the two-year-old nation.

Gunbattles erupted on Sunday night between army factions, split along ethnic lines, focused around two army barracks next to the capital in what the government called a coup attempt.

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