JUBA, Sudan – The U.N. says more than 800 people have been killed and 94,000 displaced because of violence in Southern Sudan this year.
Southern Sudan voted in January to secede from the north and is slated to become the world's newest country in July.
But since the euphoria of that vote, the region has seen a series of violent attacks.
Lise Grande, the top U.N. humanitarian official in Southern Sudan, said Wednesday that the U.N. is worried about the violence. She said the number of internally displaced people has doubled in the last month.
Most of the clashes have been tribal violence. But militant groups have also battled the government, and Grande said rebels from the Lord's Resistance Army killed four people in recent days.
