Southern Sudan Fighting Displaces 20,000, UN Rights Expert Says

Clashes between Southern Sudan’s army and rebels in Jonglei state over the past two months killed more than 200 people and displaced as many as 20,000, an expert of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council said.

Fighting in the region has intensified with “at least 16 incidents of violence” since almost 99 percent of Southern Sudanese voters chose in a Jan. 9 referendum to secede from the rest of Sudan, Mohamed Chande Othman said today in an e-mailed statement.