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Gunmen attacked a United Nations helicopter in South Sudan, killing one crew member and injuring two others during an evacuation mission to rescue wounded soldiers in Upper Nile State. The escalating political tensions in the country have raised fears of a new civil conflict, with clashes between forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and first vice president Riek Machar threatening to reignite the brutal civil war that ended in 2018. The attack has been condemned as a potential war crime, prompting urgent calls for regional intervention to prevent further violence and ethnic massacres.
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