Scores Die in Troubled South Sudan State

Almost 100 people have been killed in Jonglei state in one week, amid reports that attackers have included defectors from the South Sudanese army, the Sudan People's Liberation Army.

An aerial view of the village of Fertait, burned to the ground in an earlier series of attacks in Jonglei State.

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