South Sudan struggles with conflict and COVID-19

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In South Sudan, ethnic violence and clashes between government forces and militias threaten the promise of a peace deal signed early this year. Human rights organizations are calling on the United Nations to renew its ban on small arms for South Sudan, which have flooded the country in recent years. Making things even more difficult for South Sudan now is the coronavirus. The World’s Halima Gikandi reports. 

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