More than 5,000 South Sudanese have been killed or injured by land mines and unexploded ordnance since 2004.
Nearly a million displaced and more than 1,000 people killed as civilians bear the brunt of war that erupted last month.
Fighting between Sudan’s army and RSF could upend South Sudan’s shaky peace due to oil exports and demographic concerns.
More than 800,000 South Sudanese refugees lived in Sudan before fighting broke out there last month.
UN estimates 100,000 people will flee Sudan conflict to Chad, which already hosts more than half a million refugees.
Regional leaders and experts fear a civil war could lead to new crises in a region battered by conflict and drought.
New UN report says officials should face criminal investigation, prosecution for their part in abuses against civilians.
Implementation of a 2018 peace deal between President Kiir and VP Machar to end five years of civil war has been slow.
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UN report raises alarm on need to invest in essential nutrition programmes for adolescent girls and women.
Hundreds of thousands have been killed and millions displaced since the conflict in Darfur began 20 years ago.
Catholic church head and other Christian leaders called for recommitment to the 2018 peace deal during the Africa trip.
Francis, who is on the first-ever papal visit to South Sudan, meets children displaced by conflict.
Pope Francis will arrive in Juba hoping to revive a peace process aimed at ending a decade-long conflict.
Pope Francis’ trip to the DRC is the first papal visit since John Paul II travelled there in 1985.
