'Fire came from the sky and burned them' - life on the brink of civil war in South Sudan

Recent fighting in South Sudan's Jonglei state between government forces and the SPLA-IO, loyal to First Vice-President Riek Machar, has displaced over 280,000 people and prompted UN warnings of a potential return to full-blown civil war. The conflict, intensifying since the beginning of the year, involves government troops attempting to regain territory from Machar's forces, who have been seizing towns and leaving devastation in their wake. Civilians, like Nyawan Koang who lost her parents in an air strike, are caught in the crossfire. Thousands have fled to towns like Duk, where aid organizations are providing assistance. The fighting is rooted in the ongoing political tensions between President Salva Kiir and Riek Machar, despite a 2018 peace deal meant to end the previous civil war.

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