By AFPMore by this AuthorNAIROBIWar has now forced more than one million children to flee South Sudan and uprooted 1.4 million others within the country, the United Nations said on Monday. Another 1.4 million children are living in camps inside South Sudan. MOST VULNERABLE"The horrifying fact that nearly one in five children in South Sudan has been forced to flee their home illustrates how devastating this conflict has been for the country's most vulnerable," she said. South Sudan won its independence in 2011 but two years later a new conflict began when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup. "No refugee crisis today worries me more than South Sudan," said Valentin Tapsoba of the UNHCR.

Source: Daily Nation May 08, 2017 09:23 UTC