Gunmen have been involved in some of the heaviest fighting seen in the country’s 17 month-long conflict.
Reports have been emerging of atrocities being committed by the fighters. The UN says girls have been raped and boys as young as 10 years recruited into fighting.
Around three hundred thousand people have been left without much needed aid after agencies were forced to flee the fighting in Unity State.
Over a hundred thousand people have been forced to flee their homes.
The violence is some of the worst in months, with the fighting centered on some of the most lucrative oil fields in the country.
Government forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have been pushing to regain territory from soldiers loyal to rebel leader Riek Machar.
The UN has had to withdraw its staff from South Sudan due to the recent escalation in fighting. Last week Doctors Without Borders shut its hospital in the town of Leer and Unity for the second time in two years.
– France24
