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• 4.9M South Sudanese Need Help As Famine Ravages African Country

  A famine has been declared in parts of South Sudan, reporting some 100,000 people are facing starvation, while a million more are on the brink of famine.

• South Sudan president and rebel leader sign 'power sharing' deal

  South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel commander Riek Machar signed a power sharing agreement on Monday, African diplomatic sources said, edging closer to a final deal to end a 15-month conflict that has ravaged the world's newest country.

• Tears, chants as rebel child soldiers are freed in South Sudan

  The teenage rebel soldiers watched as their comrades handed over their assault rifles and stripped off their oversized khaki uniforms with the red, black and green South Sudan flag emblazoned on the right shoulder.

• World's children paying price for political rifts: TRFN

  Divisions among the veto-wielding powers of the U.N. Security Council are harming the world's children and sowing the seeds of future conflicts, the head of the U.N. Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday.

• IGAD mediator says not keen on sanctions in South Sudan

  The chief mediator between South Sudan's warring rivals said he was not eager to back penalties against them, even though fighting had broken out again and the United States was trying to impose international sanctions in the conflict-torn country.

• South Sudan sexual violence 'rampant,' two-year-old raped: U.N.

  Rape and other forms of sexual violence by all sides in South Sudan's civil war have become so widespread that a 2-year-old child was among the victims, the U.N. special representative on sexual violence in armed conflict said on Monday.

• U.S. ready to expand South Sudan sanctions to end violence: envoy

  The United States, frustrated with slow progress in South Sudan's peace process, is ready to expand sanctions against political and military figures unless warring parties end the violence quickly, the U.S. envoy to South Sudan said on Thursday.

• UN official says South Sudan slaughter left piles of bodies

  In a phone interview with The Associated Press, United Nations humanitarian official Toby Lanzer expressed concerns about the public health and safety implications of the Nuer rebel group killings in South Sudan.