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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Joseph Falzetta

A South Sudan community is denied aid as government and opposition blame each other

South Sudan Violence - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Displaced people who took refuge from conflict in an isolated South Sudan village were denied lifesaving aid by the government even as deaths there mounted, eyewitnesses and aid groups said.

The Associated Press spoke with people who fled to the swamp-encircled community of Nyatim in recent weeks. They described having little food and no clean water in a place so desolate that a Starlink connection was used to call for help.

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