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| South Sudan Has 'Unraveled', Says U.N. Aid Chief |
| 2013-12-23 |
| [An Nahar] The U.N. humanitarian chief in South Sudan warned Sunday the country has "unraveled" after a week of violence that has transformed a power struggle within the ruling party into a quasi-civil war. The world's youngest nation, which gained independence from Sudan in 2011 after decades of combat, is falling apart under the pressure of rebel groups seizing towns and oil fields and militias from the country's two largest tribes massacring one another after a fall-out between the President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar. "It would have been have been difficult one week ago to imagine that things would have unraveled to this extent," said Toby Lanzer, South Sudan humanitarian coordinator for the the United Nations |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Northern end is lookin' a might frayed, too. Thank goodness the UN is on the scene! |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-12-23 16:25 |