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Fierce Fighting in South Sudan Forces Thousands to Flee

27/04/2017 GMT

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Aid agencies say twenty-five thousand people have fled amid fighting in South Sudan

Aid agencies say twenty-five thousand people have fled amid fighting in South Sudan around the town of Kodok, a secret police jail cell has been discovered in the Philippines

Aid agencies say up to twenty-five thousand people have fled amid fierce fighting in South Sudan around the north eastern town of Kodok, a secret police jail cell has been discovered in the Philippines, we hear from a survivor from Uganda's 'Punishment Island'.

(Picture: A newly arrived refugee child who has fled from other fighting in the south of South Sudan sleeps on a dirty floor in Ngomoromo in Uganda on April 10, 2017. Credit: AFP/Getty Images)

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