Forces in Sudan could attack South Sudan refugee camp: U.N.

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The United Nations warned on Friday that forces in Sudan could attack a refugee camp in South Sudan because it was being used by armed groups, an assault that would rekindle tensions between the oil-producing neighbors. An unidentified aircraft circled Yida camp, in South Sudan's border state Unity, this week, raising fears of a strike, Melissa Fleming, spokeswoman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told journalists in Geneva. South Sudanese fighters ended decades of conflict with the Sudanese government with a peace deal in 2005 that paved the way for South Sudan to split away as an independent country six years later.




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