Dozens of people have been killed in clashes in the in South Sudan capital Juba. Military and medical sources have said gunfire broke out on Friday evening near the state house where President Salva Kiir was meeting his former rival, Vice-President Riek Machar.
Estimates of the death toll vary, but most accounts put the number over 100 and some as high as 150. A 2015 peace deal to end a 20-month civil war has failed to quell unrest. Juba is in lockdown as South Sudan, the world’s newest country, marks the fifth anniversary of independence from neighbouring Sudan.
Fighting was apparently sparked by a shootout between Mr Kiir’s and Mr Machar’s bodyguards.