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1 The United Nations said Wednesday that about 413,000 people have now been
displaced by violence in South Sudan, and about 65,000 have sought sanctuary
within several U.N. bases in the country. Tension boiled over in the world’s
youngest nation in December when President Salva Kiir fired Vice President Riek
Machar. The two leaders are from different ethnic groups, and their selection for
the positions was meant to make it clear that South Sudan was united after its
split from northern Sudan in 2011. However, the current fighting has seen killings
along ethnic lines. On Tuesday, between 200 and 300 people fleeing the warfare
died when an overloaded barge sank in the White Nile River. A South Sudanese
military spokesman said the boat was carrying mostly women and children.
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