Residents say South Sudan troops remove 5 000 from church
Nairobi - More than one million children have fled South Sudan's civil war, two United Nations agencies said Monday, part of the world's fastest growing refugee crisis.
Another one million South Sudanese children are displaced within the country, having fled their homes due to the civil war, said the UN's child and refugee agencies in a statement on Monday.
"The future of a generation is truly on the brink," said Leila Pakkala, UNICEF's Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa. "The horrifying fact that nearly one in five children in South Sudan has been forced to flee their home illustrates how devastating this conflict has been for the country's most vulnerable."
Roughly 62 percent of refugees from South Sudan are children, according to the U.N. statement, and more than 75,000 children are alone or without their families. Roughly 1.8 million people have fled South Sudan in total.
"No refugee crisis today worries me more than South Sudan," said Valentin Tapsoba, UNHCR's Africa Bureau Director. "That refugee children are becoming the defining face of this emergency is incredibly troubling."
For children still living in South Sudan, the situation is still grim. Nearly three quarters of children are out of school, according to the U.N. statement, which is the highest out-of-school population in the world. An official famine was declared in two counties of South Sudan in February, and hundreds of thousands of children are at risk of starvation in the absence of food aid, according to the UN.
More than one thousand children have been killed or wounded in the East African nation's civil war. Both sides have pledged not to recruit child soldiers, but have ignored their promises. A UN official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said that opposition groups are recruiting inside UN displacement sites. The official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of lack of authorisation to speak to the media.
South Sudan's civil war began in December 2013 and has killed tens of thousands of people. South Sudan is now the world's fastest growing refugee crisis.
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Nigeria bus crash kills 20
Kano - Eighteen people were killed in a single accident in a week-end of deadly crashes in northern Nigeria that also saw a junior minister and his family killed, officials said on Monday.
A commuter bus went up in flames after a head-on collision with a truck late on Sunday at Buzaye village near the city of Bauchi, said Federal Road Safety Corps spokesperson Rilwanu Suleiman.
"All the 17 passengers and the driver were burnt to death in the fire," he told AFP.
The bus was returning from Nigeria's capital Abuja while the truck was heading towards the central city of Jos.
Hours earlier Nigeria's junior labour minister James Ocholi died in a crash with his wife and son while returning to Abuja.
Ocholi's car somersaulted several times after a rear tyre burst, according to several local media reports.
"The entire country mourns the loss of this great man, who has sadly left us when we need him most," President Muhammadu Buhari said in a statement late on Sunday.
Accidents are common on Nigeria's bad roads due largely to speeding, reckless driving, poorly maintained vehicles and potholed, often unlit roads.
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