Families still grieving in South Sudan
By Al Jazeera
26 December 2016 |
8:03 am
More than 500 people were killed in just three days of fighting in the South Sudan capital Juba in July. That put an end to any hope of peace in a country that has been divided by civil war since December 2013.
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