South Sudan: Govt Accuses Rebels of Attacking Lakes State Village

6 August 2014

Juba — The South Sudanese government has accused rebels allied to former vice-president Riek Machar of attacking Lakes state's Yirol area.

Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny told reporters in his office in the capital, Juba, that rebels had launched an offensive in violation of a ceasefire agreement signed in January and recommitted to in May by the two warring parties.

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