South Sudanese officials and wildlife conservationists say poaching has increased since South Sudan plunged into conflict in December 2013.
The accusations that rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar launched attacks in Unity and Upper Nile states come a week after President Salva Kiir and Machar signed a power-sharing deal
U.N. Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator Valerie Amos and UNESCO Special Envoy Forest Whitaker say South Sudan's should visit IDP camps, to understand the suffering they are inflicting on their people.
A government spokesman says the Unity State attack shows the rebels are not serious about ending the fighting in South Sudan. The rebels say they were defending themselves against government attack.
Parliamentary minority leader Onyoti Adigo Nyikwak says holding elections in June would further divide the country.
Both sides are blaming the other for the fighting, which took place near the state capital, Malakal.
The official rate for the South Sudanese Pound is 3.16 to $1, but on the black market, $1 will buy just under 5 Pounds.
The head of the United Democratic Front party says security officials confiscated his and other party officials' passports and barred them from traveling to Addis.
In speech to open session of National Assembly, Kiir pledges to restore peace, help those displaced by fighting, improve infrastructure, unite South Sudanese
How people greeted Johnson's resignation depended in part on which side of the fence -- or the walls surrounding U.N. bases in South Sudan -- they are on, an analyst says.
The resolution extends UNMISS's mandate for six months and changes its focus from promoting development and nation-building to protecting civilians and ending the violence in South Sudan.
Donald Booth says deploying troops in South Sudan will provide protection for ceasefire monitors, who are on the ground but unable to work because of ongoing fighting.
UN human rights chief Navi Pillay says President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar have allowed their personal differences to drive South Sudan to the brink of disaster.
The government says it withdrew its case against the four so-called 'political detainees' to help the peace process but one of the freed men says they were released because the case against them fell apart.
Justice Minister Paulino Wanawila says the four detainees, who have been in custody since mid-December, could be released as early as Friday.
President Salva Kiir sacks the army chief of staff and the head of military intelligence, days after two towns in oil-producing Unity state fell to opposition forces.
Latrines have collapsed and water is scarce in the UN base in Bentiu, where thousands of civilians have sought shelter in the 10 days since rebels seized control of the town.
With slow-moving peace talks due to resume in Addis Ababa next week, the pro- and anti-government sides in South Sudan's four-month-old conflict swap accusations and presage more fighting for control of key towns.
The president of South Sudan calls the attack on the U.N. base in Bor, where 5,000 people are sheltering, "irresponsible"
Government ministers say U.N. peacekeepers provoked the attack, which left dozens dead, by firing into the air to try to disperse a large group of armed civilians who had gathered outside the U.N. base in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state.
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