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UN panel accuses South Sudan officials of overseeing gang rapes

A UN peacekeeping force has been deployed in South Sudan since 2011 [File: Andreea Campeanu/Al Jazeera]

United Nations experts have called on authorities in South Sudan to investigate officials accused of overseeing systematic gang rapes, some of whose victims were girls as young as nine.

The Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan said on Monday that it had reasonable grounds to believe a county commissioner in the northern oil-rich state of Unity orchestrated gang rapes at a military camp.

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