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Panel: Full-Scale War Looms in South Sudan One Year After Peace Accord Signed

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - A panel of U.N. experts warns the failure of South Sudan's
   warring factions to implement last year's peace accord risks plunging
   the country into full-scale war once again.

   The report by the three-member Commission on Human Rights in South
   Sudan shows no improvements since South Sudan's President Salva Kiir
   and opposition leader Riek Machar signed a peace accord aimed at ending
   the country's six-year civil war.

   The chair of the commission, Yasmin Sooka, said more than six million
   people are going hungry, 1.3 million children under five are acutely
   malnourished, and millions more are stunted, affecting their health and
   mental development.

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