{Violent clashes and heavy shooting took place on Saturday between armed tribal groups in Yambio, capital of South Sudan’s Western Equatoria State.}<\/p>\n
The clashes left scores of young people and government soldiers dead, said Charles Kisanga, the state Information Minister, without giving specific numbers of the victims.<\/p>\n
“The clashes prompted panic among the population in the city”, he said, adding that the clashes forced the majority of the citizens to flee the city to a nearby United Nations mission base.<\/p>\n
South Sudan plunged into violence in December 2013, when fighting erupted between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir and defectors led by his former deputy Riek Machar.<\/p>\n
The conflict soon turned into an all-out war, with the violence taking on an ethnic dimension that pitted the president’s Dinka tribe against Dr Machar’s Nuer ethnic group.<\/p>\n
The clashes have left thousands of South Sudanese dead and forced around 1.9 million people to flee their homes.<\/p>\n
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