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Violence in South Sudan prompts mass flight



Up to 60,000 people have fled South Sudan since violence escalated over the past three weeks, the United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said.An already shaky 2015 peace deal signed after a bloody civil war in the world's newest nation looks uncertain as clashes rage on between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and those allied with former rebel leader Riek Machar.
"They brought to us very disturbing reports, armed groups operating on roads to Uganda are preventing people from fleeing," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a briefing on Tuesday."Armed groups are looting villages, murdering civilians and forcibly recruiting young men and boys into their ranks."

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