South Sudan Fighting Leaves at Least 20 Dead After Cease-Fire
- Warring parties accuse each other of cease-fire violations
- Army, rebels agreed to stop hostilities from midnight Dec. 24
A Sudan People's Liberation Army soldier holds a gun at a containment site outside Juba.
Photographer: Samir Bol/AFP via Getty Images
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Almost two dozen government troops were killed in South Sudan during fighting, just a day after a cease-fire agreement came into effect, according to the main rebel group.
The nation’s army and rebels last week agreed to cease hostilities from midnight Dec. 24, in a bid to end three years of violence that’s claimed tens of thousands of lives and forced 4 million people from their homes in the nation that only got independence in 2011.