One million refugees have fled South Sudan: UN

South Sudan, the world's youngest nation, has now joined "Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia as countries which have produced more than a million refugees", Leo Dobbs, spokesman for the UN refugee agency, the UNHCR, said on Friday.
"This is a very sad milestone," he added.
"Most of those fleeing South Sudan are women and children. They include survivors of violent attacks, sexual assault, children that have been separated from their parents or travelled alone, the disabled, the elderly and people in need of urgent medical care," he said.

South Sudan gained independence from Sudan in 2011, but civil war erupted two years later when Kiir accused Machar of plotting a coup.
A peace deal reached a year ago under international pressure has been violated repeatedly by fighting, and Machar fled the country in recent weeks.

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