Government recaptures rebel-held town in South Sudan

  • 10 years ago
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Behind a government soldier, flattened homes lie still in South Sudan.

The town of Bor is a ghost town.

Clothes and debris are all that remain after government forces -- backed by Ugandan military -- reseized the town from rebels.

Fighting flared up in South Sudan in mid-December and has followed ethnic lines.

Bodies were left to decompose in the streets and on beds inside a makeshift hospital.

The United Nations says thousands of people have been killed and more than half a million driven from their homes in the world's newest nation.