Updated Tue, August 2nd 2016 at 20:06 GMT +3GENEVA/JUBA: Tens of thousands of people have fled a fresh outbreak of violence in South Sudan, reporting mass killings, looting and forced recruitment of child soldiers, U.N. agencies said on Tuesday. "Armed groups operating across different parts of South Sudan are looting villages, murdering civilians and forcibly recruiting young men and boys into their ranks," UNHCR spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told a briefing in Geneva. "People must understand that the peace agreement doesn't belong to Riek Machar," he told reporters in the capital on Tuesday. GUNS, OIL, CHOLERAGovernment military helicopters flew over the capital over the weekend, but the streets were quiet on Tuesday. Many of the refugees pouring into neighbouring Uganda, Kenya and Sudan have been carrying malnourished children, the refugee agency the UNHCR added, the victims of a humanitarian crisis exacerbated by food shortages and a cholera outbreak.

Source: Standard Digital August 02, 2016 12:45 UTC