The United Nations Mission in South Sudan said Monday that it would not comply with a government order to shut down its base in Akobo, an opposition stronghold near the Ethiopian border where tens of thousands of refugees have fled.
UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Tuesday condemned accounts of "gruesome killings" of civilians in South Sudan, the destruction and poisoning of key water sources and fresh waves of mass displacement.
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan says it will not comply with a government order to shut down its base in Akobo, an opposition stronghold near the Ethiopian border where tens of thousands of refugees have fled ...