New flare-up of local violence in S. Sudan kills 15


  • World
  • Wednesday, 20 Mar 2024

JUBA (Reuters) -Young men shot dead 15 people in South Sudan's eastern Pibor region, including a county commissioner, a senior official said on Wednesday, amid a rise in local conflict ahead of a national election due at the end of the year.

A civil war that erupted two years after the country won independence from Sudan caused hundreds of thousands of deaths between 2013 and 2018.

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