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Scale and horror of situation in South Sudan saddening affair

As the year 2016 come to close, the youngest democracy in the world South Sudan is bleeding subject to embroilment in internecine civil strife. The country gives us the perspective of desperation, hopelessness, fear inherent among citizens.

With Christmas mood having caught up with us in stable countries and on the brink of the New Year 2017, marked with cheers and joyful shouts eating and drinking as we usher it in, has the world spared a thought for the future of the innocent souls in Southern Sudan? What role are UN forces playing in stopping the fight further?

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