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    <text>2025 Nasir clashes</text>
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    <text>South Sudanese vice president Riek Machar is detained by security forces following an arrest warrant on &quot;unclear charges&quot;, according to his spokesperson. The Sudan People's Liberation Movement-in-Opposition says Machar's arrest has effectively ended the 2018 peace agreement which ended the civil war. </text>
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    <text>A UNMISS helicopter operator and approximently 27 South Sudanese soldiers are killed after being fired on by a local militia group while evacuating Nasir, South Sudan. </text>
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      <text>Security forces in South Sudan arrest Puot Kang Chol, a senior member of the the parliamentary opposition, minister of petroleum and mining, and army general, as well as multiple other opposition-aligned military officers. South Sudanese soldiers also surround vice president Riek Machar's house overnight before later withdrawing. </text>
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      <text>Security forces in South Sudan arrest Puot Kang Chol the minister of petroleum and an army general, who are senior members of the main opposition and South Sudanese army troops surrounded Riek Machar house overnight before they withdraw later.All other senior military officials allied with Machar have been placed under house arrest. </text>
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    <text>Security forces in South Sudan arrest Puot Kang Chol, a senior member of the parliamentary opposition, minister of petroleum and mining, and army general, as well as multiple other opposition-aligned military officers. South Sudanese soldiers also surround vice president Riek Machar's house overnight before later withdrawing. </text>
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      <text>Clashes between armed civilians and soldiers in Tonj, South Sudan, during a disarmament exercise leave 127 dead since Saturday, an army spokesman says Wednesday. A total of 45 of those killed were part of the security forces while the rest were youths from the area. </text>
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      <text>Clashes between armed civilians and soldiers in Tonj during a disarmament exercise leave 127 dead since Saturday, an army spokesman says Wednesday. A total of 45 of those killed were part of the security forces while the rest were youths from the area. </text>
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    <text>Clashes between armed civilians and soldiers in Tonj, Warrap, South Sudan, during a disarmament exercise leave 127 dead since Saturday, an army spokesman says. A total of 45 of those killed were part of the security forces while the rest were youths from the area. </text>
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  <slug>/feed/2025/04/21/the-south-sudan-people-s-defence-forces-capture-the-town-of-nasir-in-upper-nile-state-from-the-nuer-white-army</slug>
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  <text>The South Sudan People's Defence Forces capture the town of Nasir in Upper Nile State from the Nuer White Army. </text>
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