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January 18th, 2014 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The United Nations says civilians have fled the South Sudanese town of Bor ahead of a new offensive by government forces.
More and more people are taking refuge in UN compounds or fleeing the country, UN deputy spokesman Farhan Haq said on Friday.
“In Bor, the (UN) mission said that there are no civilians and that it has received reports of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army advancing towards the town,” said Haq.
About 10,000 people have taken refuge at the UN base in Bor, the capital of Jonglei state, which has become a combat zone between government troops and fighters loyal to rebel leader Riek Machar.
On January 10, government troops recaptured Bentiu, the capital of oil-producing northern Unity state, from rebels, following days of fierce fighting.
The UN official described Bentiu as a “ghost town” with the bodies of civilians left in the streets.
Haq said some 22,000 people are in the UN base in Malakal in Upper Nile state and a total of 67,000 people are in compounds across the country.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said that it has so far registered 86,000 South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.
The fighting between troops of President Salva Kiir, who is from the Dinka ethnic group, and opposition leader Machar, a Nuer, erupted around Juba on December 15, 2013.
The International Crisis Group said on January 9 that about 10,000 people had been killed in the violence.
“Given the intensity of fighting in over 30 different locations in the past three weeks, we are looking at a death toll approaching 10,000,” said Casie Copeland, an analyst at the International Crisis Group.
South Sudan gained independence in July 2011 after its people overwhelmingly voted in a referendum for a split from the North.
The government in Juba is grappling with rampant corruption, unrest and conflict in the deeply impoverished but oil-rich nation left devastated by decades of war.
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