UN deploys more peacekeepers to South Sudan’s Unity state
- Nearly 1.76 million people have been displaced internally since fighting broke out in 2013 between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and the former vice president he sacked, Riek Machar.
- Head of UN mission David Shearer: “What we are witnessing on the ground is the deliberate killing of civilians as well as the sexual violation and abduction of women and children.”