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Scores Flee Armed Attack On MSF-Run Hospital In South Sudan

The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontierres has expressed outrage at an attack on a crucial hospital in the Upper Nile State. An MSF statement said more than 100 patients fled the facility when fighting drew closer on April 13.

Earlier, stakeholders expressed fear that violent clashes in the region, coupled with the house arrest in March of Vice President Riek Machar, could likely return the country to full-blown civil war. The current crisis, however, has its roots in the faltering peace agreement and "little to do wth the clashes", writes Madhav Joshi, Research Professor from the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies.

Joshi states that in his years of data gathering on the implementation of peace agreements in conflict situations, he has never observed delays like the one in South Sudan, "or the arrest of a main opposition leader who is a signatory to a peace agreement".

The professor said the international community must lead a "radical push" to get signatories of the 2018 peace deal to implement it.

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Damage to an MSF office (file photo).

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