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UN seeks end to South Sudan violence UN seeks end to South Sudan violence
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UN Security Council calls on warring factions in South Sudan to end fighting and prevent spread of violence The UN Security Council has called on warring factions in South Sudan to end the recent fighting and prevent the spread of violence.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. In a unanimous statement, the council condemned the fighting "in the strongest terms" and expressed "particular shock and outrage" at attacks on UN sites.
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Hundreds are reported killed in clashes between rival groups since Friday.
Forces loyal to Vice-President Riek Machar say government troops attacked their positions in the capital, Juba.
A spokesman for Mr Machar told the BBC on Sunday that the country was "back to war" but Information Minister Michael Makuei Lueth described reports of war as "dishonest".
The UN mission said hundreds of people had sought shelter in its compounds.
The violence has raised fears of renewed instability, with a 2015 peace deal failing to quell unrest.
Friday's exchanges were apparently sparked by a shootout between President Salva Kiir's and Mr Machar's bodyguards. At least 150 died in the clashes.
The two men met at the presidential palace the same day, and issued a call for calm.
Calm was apparently restored on Saturday but heavy gunfire was reported on Sunday near a military barracks occupied by troops loyal to Mr Machar.
How did we get here?
July 2011 - South Sudan becomes an independent country, after more than 20 years of guerrilla warfare, which claimed the lives of at least 1.5 million people and displaced more than four million.
December 2013 - Civil war breaks out after President Salva Kiir sacks the cabinet and accuses Vice-President Riek Machar of planning a coup. The war is fought broadly between the country's biggest ethnic groups - the Dinka, led by Mr Kiir, and the Nuer, under Mr Machar.
More than 2.2 million people are displaced by the fighting. Famine puts the lives of thousands at risk. Tens of thousands of people are reported killed, and Mr Machar flees the country.
August 2015 - President Kiir signs a peace deal with rebels after a threat of sanctions from the UN.
April 2016 - Mr Machar returns to South Sudan to take up his job as first vice president in a new unity government led by President Kiir.
The move marks "the end of the war and the return of peace and stability to South Sudan", Mr Kiir says.