South Sudan's rebels have claimed responsibility for an ambush on a convoy of buses and other vehicles travelling on a major highway that killed at least 14 people, the opposition said on Friday. Gunmen attacked the convoy as it drove towards Juba on a highway linking the South Sudan capital with Nimule, on the southern border with Uganda. We targeted government groups, those who are escorting the civilians," Gabriel said, adding that all the government vehicles in the convoy were destroyed. But South Sudanese police spokesman Daniel Boulogne said 14 people had been killed, without giving details of whether they were soldiers, civilians or both. South Sudan has been devastated by a three-year civil war that broke out in December 2013 after President Salva Kiir sacked his political foe and vice president Riek Machar.

Source: The Star June 10, 2017 08:37 UTC