South Sudan: UN Urges End to ‘Cycle of Violence’ After Deadly Ethnic Clashes

by Gary Kopycinski on August 22, 2011

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SUDAN–(ENEWSPF)–22 August 2011. The top United Nations official in South Sudan today called for an end to the “cycle of violence” engulfing the newly independent country’s state of Jonglei, where hundreds of people have been killed in recent days in fighting between ethnic groups.