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South Sudan

Mass atrocities feared in South Sudan as ethnic violence is stoked by hunger

Amid catastrophic levels of malnutrition in South Sudan, the UN has warned of the danger of ethnic cleansing involving massacres and gang rape

By Ben Quinn in Malakal

Thrusting a hand to his brow in an impromptu military salute, 10-year-old Timon Kamis stands to attention at his family’s tent inside one of the sprawling camps where tens of thousands of South Sudanese have sought sanctuary from the three years of bloodletting that have poisoned the world’s youngest country.

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