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A top UN official says he is deeply shocked at the killing and harassment of aid workers in South Sudan. Stephen O'Brien, U.N. under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator, said Saturday that 27 aid workers had died since the conflict began in South Sudan. South Sudan's civil war, which started in December 2013, has inflamed the country's ethnic tensions.
The UN has warned of escalating ethnic violence in South Sudan, as renewed fighting forces thousands to flee their homes in Unity State. A peace deal between Kiir and Machar in August last year had raised hopes of peace, until clashes erupted once again in July in the capital. Aid workers in Bentiu are concentrating their efforts on rehabilitating the displaced children, some of whom have witnessed atrocities.
China has called for an end to conflict in South Sudan where fighting has caused thousands of people to flee from their homes and prompted warnings to oil companies to shut down operations. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said China was "gravely concerned" about the situation. Reuters says China is a major investor in South Sudan's oil industry and has played an unusually active diplomatic role there, sending peacekeepers as part of a U.N. mission to protect civilians. Four people were killed this week when two mortar bombs hit a U.N. compound and a site housing civilians in a town near South Sudan's oilfields.
Opposing groups of government soldiers in South Sudan's Upper Nile state fought for a third day on Thursday, a ruling party official said, adding that the defense minister will travel to the region in a bid to defuse the situation. Thousands of people have been killed in South Sudan and more than a million have fled their homes since fighting between supporters of President Salva Kiir and former vice president Riek Machar started in the world's youngest country in December 2013.
A South Sudanese presidential spokesman says four people have been killed by an apparent Sudanese air strike on South Sudan's territory. Ateny Wek Ateny said Thursday that nine more people were wounded in what he called "an act of aggression" by Sudan. He said Sudan is to blame because it is the only neighboring country with "the history of this type of unprovoked attacks." Deng Kuel Kuel, the head of a local commission that coordinates emergency and humanitarian response in Northern Bahr al Ghazal state bordering Sudan, said two children were among those killed in an aerial bombing Wednesday.
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