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The number of people displaced globally totals 65.6 million after an addition of 10.3 million people displaced in 2016. Syria, Colombia, Afghanistan, Iraq and South Sudan are the countries in the top five.
2017-06-19

Ethiopia claims that members of South Sudan's Murle people have killed 140 people and abducted 39 children.
2016-04-16

Fighting resumes in South Sudan after the failure to reach a deal between tribes loyal to the president and tribes loyal to the former vice-president.
2015-08-19

South Sudan declares a cholera outbreak after 18 people die and 171 are infected.
2015-06-23

The United States circulates a draft resolution proposing a sanctions regime for conflict-torn South Sudan.
2014-11-4

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir visits South Sudan for the first time since the country won its independence in 2011 to meet with President Salva Kiir.
2013-04-12

South Sudan–Sudan border conflict: South Sudan announces the withdrawal of troops from Heglig.
2012-04-20

The United Nations says 120,000 people in South Sudan required aid amid tribal fighting.
2012-01-20

President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir threatens to cut off pipelines carrying Southern Sudanese petroleum (oil) on July 1 unless a deal is done.
2011-06-22

Crowds gather in the South Sudan capital Juba to mark one month until the referendum on independence.
2010-12-9