7,000 South Sudan Refugees Flee to DR Congo

 

The Democratic Republic of Congo received about 7,000 refugees from South Sudan on Tuesday.

The refugees are fleeing violence in the country following a civil war which broke out in December 2013.

The war precipitated from a dispute between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar whom he accused of planning a coup, leading to a cycle of retaliatory massacres that have split the country along ethnic lines.

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Source: Africanews.