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South Sudan arrests threatening fragile peace: HRW

South Sudan Vice-President Riek Machar in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in 2018. [Via Reuters]

South Sudan has arrested at least 22 officials linked to the country's vice president since violent clashes broke out in the northeast last month, threatening the country's fragile peace, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday.

A fragile power-sharing agreement between President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Riek Machar has been put in peril by fighting between their allied forces in the country's Upper Nile State.

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