JUBA (Reuters) - South Sudan's rebels said on Tuesday that government soldiers had launched attacks against their positions in oil-rich Unity State in what they said was a violation of a peace deal signed in August.
The world's youngest country descended into civil war in December 2013 when a row between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar ended with fighting that often ran along ethnic fault lines between Kiir's Dinka and Machar's Nuer people.
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