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Barrel bombs believed to contain a highly flammable liquid have been used in airstrikes in South Sudan as escalating violence pushes the world's newest country to the brink of another civil war, the U...
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Riek Machar was arrested and placed under house arrest, his party said.
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The unravelling power-sharing deal between Kiir and Machar risks a return of the civil war that killed around 400,000 people in five years.
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