south sudan civil war

“We’re not going to stop. If Juba thinks that without bullets we’re not going to be able to protect ourselves and our people they’re wrong,” rebel leader Thomas Cirillo told VICE News. ​

“Like a hyena calling a conference to discuss the protection of injured gazelles.”

Recent atrocities in the capital Juba are the product of a civil war between tribes, but there are natural resources behind decades of strife.

South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar was supposed to return to the capital Juba on Monday to be sworn in as vice president. Three days later his men are still stuck at an Ethiopian airport.

Getachew Reda, Ethiopia's communications minister, said the attackers were members of South Sudan's Murle tribe, and that the attack took place on Friday in the Gambela region, which borders South Sudan.

Tens of thousands of South Sudanese civilians are fleeing a scorched-earth campaign by militias allied with the government — one in which women pay the biggest price.

This is chapter 18 of Robert Young Pelton and Tim Freccia's sprawling 35,000-plus-word epic exploration of the crisis in South Sudan. You can skip ahead and <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/saving-south-sudan">read the full text here</a> or <a href...

This is chapter 17 of Robert Young Pelton and Tim Freccia's sprawling 35,000-plus-word epic exploration of the crisis in South Sudan. You can skip ahead and <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/saving-south-sudan">read the full text here</a> or <a href...

This is chapter 16 of Robert Young Pelton and Tim Freccia's sprawling 35,000-plus-word epic exploration of the crisis in South Sudan. You can skip ahead and <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/saving-south-sudan">read the full text here</a> or <a href...

This is chapter 14 of Robert Young Pelton and Tim Freccia's sprawling 35,000-plus-word epic exploration of the crisis in South Sudan. You can skip ahead and <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/saving-south-sudan">read the full text here</a> or <a href...