Against the backdrop of major political transformations between Sudan and South Sudan, including the independence of South Sudan in July 2011, and an increasingly tense relationship between both countries, localized conflicts in South Sudan’s Greater Upper Nile region have been largely overlooked by the international community. However, since April 2010 South Sudan’s armed forces, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), have been deployed against at least seven armed opposition groups in the Greater Upper Nile region – an area covering Unity, Jonglei and Upper Nile states.
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