Clashes in South Sudan displace 50,000 people: UN

Clashes between rival forces in South Sudan have displaced at least 50,000 people since February, a UN agency said on Tuesday, while the most senior UN official in the country warned it was on the “brink of relapse into civil war.”

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Tensions have been mounting over clashes in the northeastern Upper Nile State between forces allied to President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar, threatening to undermine their fragile peace-sharing agreement.

“The violence is putting already vulnerable communities at greater risk and forcing the suspension of life-saving services,” Anita Kiki Gbeho, an official with the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in South Sudan said in a statement.