U.N. Reports 50,000 Displaced by Fighting
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At least 50,000 people have been driven from their homes in Sudan’s Upper Nile region by fighting in the last month between government forces and rebels, the U.N. said.
“Villages have been burnt, while looting and rapes have been reported.... Schools and clinics have been destroyed,” a U.N. statement about the region’s Shilluk kingdom said.
An estimated 13,000 displaced civilians have taken refuge in Malakal, the main government-held town of the region.
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