South Sudan’s current violence ‘lot worse’ than during civil war

UN report says hundreds killed, hundreds of thousands displaced during fighting; women and girls abducted and raped.

Violence raging on in vast swathes of South Sudan a year after a peace deal was signed to end the five-year civil war is “a lot worse” than during the war itself, according to a United Nations report released on Friday. Attacks on civilians by armed groups intensified last year and victims are targeted along ethnic lines, often with the support of government and opposition forces, the report by the UN’s Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said. The scale of violence exceeds that of 2013 to 2019, commission chairwoman Yasmin Sooka said.