On a first visit to South Sudan, members of the Security Council call the South Sudan crisis man-made and political and say it stems from a "failure of leadership."
More than 200 aid workers have already been evacuated from the restive county, where at least six humanitarian workers were killed earlier this week in what appear to be ethnically targeted revenge killings.
Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch say in a joint report that the authorities in South Sudan have created a climate of fear for journalists working in the country.
An army spokesman says most of the casualties from the fighting in Jonglei and Upper Nile states were from the opposition side.
A spokesman for the government says he is confident that, this time, the two sides will reach a deal to end the fighting.
Opposition forces say they have wrested control of the town from forces loyal to President Salva Kiir, but the SPLA denies that Nassir has fallen to the rebels.
An official in the disputed area says a toddler was among five people killed in the fighting, and blames the violence on pro-Khartoum Misseriya nomads.
More than 100,000 displaced persons are housed in cramped, often unsanitary conditions in 10 U.N. camps around South Sudan.
Presenting the budget to lawmakers, the finance minister says non-oil revenues are expected to be in the region of 3 billion South Sudanese pounds in the 2014-15 fiscal year -- less than half the projected revenues from oil.
Business as usual grinds to a halt as lawmakers object to the way the speaker appointed new committee heads.
