AFP, Geneva :
At least 300 people have been killed in four days of intense gunbattles in the capital of South Sudan and 42,000 have fled the city, the UN said on Friday.
The recent violence in Juba echoed the fighting that triggered the civil war and marks a fresh blow to last year’s peace deal to end the bitter conflict that began when President Salva Kiir accused ex-rebel and now Vice-President Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
“It’s over 300 deaths since August 8,” said World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic. The UN however said it did not have the number of injured.
The July 8-11 violence had left “42,000 internally displaced” in the world’s youngest nation, said William Spindler, the spokesman for the UN refugee agency. “The number of refugees in neigbouring countries is now 835,000,” he said.
At least 300 people have been killed in four days of intense gunbattles in the capital of South Sudan and 42,000 have fled the city, the UN said on Friday.
The recent violence in Juba echoed the fighting that triggered the civil war and marks a fresh blow to last year’s peace deal to end the bitter conflict that began when President Salva Kiir accused ex-rebel and now Vice-President Riek Machar of plotting a coup.
“It’s over 300 deaths since August 8,” said World Health Organization spokesman Tarik Jasarevic. The UN however said it did not have the number of injured.
The July 8-11 violence had left “42,000 internally displaced” in the world’s youngest nation, said William Spindler, the spokesman for the UN refugee agency. “The number of refugees in neigbouring countries is now 835,000,” he said.
