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October 14, 2025

United Nations: 300,000 People Have Fled South Sudan in 2025
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The United Nations warns some 300,000 people have fled South Sudan this
year amid renewed fighting that's threatening to return the nation to
civil war. The conflict grew worse after the arrest of First Vice
President Riek Machar unraveled a fragile power-sharing agreement. Sudan
gained U.N. recognition as the world's newest nation in 2011, but a
civil war that erupted in 2013 led to an estimated 400,000 deaths.


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