{"id":97920,"date":"2017-04-11T02:51:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=97920"},"modified":"2017-04-11T02:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T06:51:30","slug":"at-least-16-killed-in-fresh-fighting-in-south-sudan-un","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/11\/at-least-16-killed-in-fresh-fighting-in-south-sudan-un\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 16 killed in fresh fighting in South Sudan: UN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_97921\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-97921\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/South_Sudan_adm_location_map.svg_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-97921\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/South_Sudan_adm_location_map.svg_.png\" alt=\"At least 16 civilians have been killed and ten others injured in South Sudan's northwestern town of Wau following sporadic fighting between government-backed militia and local youth, the UN mission said Monday. (Photo by Karte: NordNordWest, Lizenz: Creative Commons by-sa-3.0 de [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/de\/deed.en)],)\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/South_Sudan_adm_location_map.svg_.png 800w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/South_Sudan_adm_location_map.svg_-300x218.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/South_Sudan_adm_location_map.svg_-768x558.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-97921\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At least 16 civilians have been killed and ten others injured in South Sudan&#8217;s northwestern town of Wau following sporadic fighting between government-backed militia and local youth, the UN mission said Monday. (Photo by<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3ASouth_Sudan_adm_location_map.svg\"> Karte: NordNordWest, Lizenz: Creative Commons by-sa-3.0 de [CC BY-SA 3.0 de (http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/3.0\/de\/deed.en)],<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>JUBA\u2014At least 16 civilians have been killed and ten others injured in South Sudan&#8217;s northwestern town of Wau following sporadic fighting between government-backed militia and local youth, the UN mission said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) said the fighting started after a number of government SPLA soldiers were killed in an ambush on Sunday in the south of Wau.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Mission mounted two patrols into Wau on Monday and said it had observed the bodies of 16 civilians in a hospital. There were ten people who had been injured,&#8221; the UNMISS said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The UN mission said 84 people have arrived at the UN protection of civilian site, while an influx of at least 3,000 people into a Catholic church in the town, mostly women and children, has been reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fighting follows the movement of SPLA troops, tanks and equipment towards the southwestern part of Wau late last week,&#8221; UNMISS said.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan has been devastated by civil strife that broke out in December 2013. Tens of thousands of South Sudanese have been killed, with over 2 million displaced since then.<\/p>\n<p>A peace deal signed in August 2015 led to the formation of a transitional unity government, but was again shattered by fresh violence in July, 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA\u2014At least 16 civilians have been killed and ten others injured in South Sudan&#8217;s northwestern town of Wau following sporadic &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":97921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,16,17],"tags":[17830],"class_list":["post-97920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news","category-news-w","tag-south-sudan-fight","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}