‘Wrong’: Trump administration completes deportations to South Sudan
After legal battle, US sends eight detainees to country it has advised citizens not to visit due to ‘crime, conflict’.
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More than 130,000 people have been displaced since fighting between gov’t and opposition forces escalated in February.
At least seven people were killed and 20 injured after a Doctors Without Borders hospital was bombed in South Sudan
The UN has warned in recent weeks that the country is on the brink of a new civil war.
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US aid cuts force South Sudanese clinics to close, leaving cholera patients dead on a desperate trek for medical care.
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A US deportee who South Sudanese officials say is not from the country is at the root of the spat.
“In South Sudan, the current conflicts come on top of other crises already happening.”
The decision comes as political tensions mount in South Sudan, causing fears of a renewed civil war.
Sudan’s war is spilling into South Sudan as its army and RSF seek new proxies and partners.
