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THE UN refugee agency UNHCR highlighted the dangers today of an outbreak of violence close to the South Sudan-Sudan border for aid workers and more than 100,000 refugees.
The UN body expressed its dismay at Monday’s killing of an aid worker in the latest outbreak of fighting.
It said that violence on the border is compromising the security of more than 100,000 Sudanese refugees who fled an earlier series of clashes in Blue Nile state.
The aid worker was killed in Maban County, Upper Nile state, by militia fighters who are intimidating aid workers, UNCHR said.
The militia — the Mabanese Defence Forces — has been asking aid groups if they have any ethnic Nuer employees, said the UN Mission in South Sudan.
Targeted killings of certain ethnic groups have been a hallmark of the violence in South Sudan.
Peace talks between South Sudan’s government and rebel fighters restarted on Monday in Ethiopia but no breakthroughs have been announced.
