More than 200 people drown fleeing S. Sudan fighting

Between 200 and 300 Sudanese civilians escaping from fresh fighting in South Sudan have drowned when their ferry capsized.

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Tuesday, 14.01.2014.

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JUBA Between 200 and 300 Sudanese civilians escaping from fresh fighting in South Sudan have drowned when their ferry capsized. The accident happened on the White Nile, near South Sudan's city of Malakal. More than 200 people drown fleeing S. Sudan fighting "The reports we have are of between 200 to 300 people, including women and children. The boat was overloaded. They all drowned. They were fleeing the fighting that broke out again in Malakal," AFP quoted military spokesman Philip Aguer. At least 1,000 people died since mid-December, and more than 180,000 have been displaced in the area. What started as power struggle between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, and the rebel leader and former vice president, Riek Machar, turned into an ethnic South Sudan declared independence in 2011, but has been undergoing years of power struggles and ethnic tensions, and has not fully recovered from its decades-long struggle for independence. South Sudanese government troops (Beta/AP, file) Tanjug

More than 200 people drown fleeing S. Sudan fighting

"The reports we have are of between 200 to 300 people, including women and children. The boat was overloaded. They all drowned. They were fleeing the fighting that broke out again in Malakal," AFP quoted military spokesman Philip Aguer.

At least 1,000 people died since mid-December, and more than 180,000 have been displaced in the area.

What started as power struggle between South Sudan's President Salva Kiir, and the rebel leader and former vice president, Riek Machar, turned into an ethnic

South Sudan declared independence in 2011, but has been undergoing years of power struggles and ethnic tensions, and has not fully recovered from its decades-long struggle for independence.

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