Thousands Are Feared Dead In South Sudan As Fighting And Ethnic Killings Escalate

'Thousands' Killed In South Sudan Violence, UN Boosts Peacekeepers To 12,500 -- RT

The UN Security Council has unanimously voted to nearly double the number of peacekeepers in South Sudan to protect civilians, as thousands are feared dead in the deteriorating conflict in the world’s youngest state.

The top UN body voted Tuesday to authorize a request by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to boost the strength of the UN's mission in South Sudan to 12,500 troops and 1,323 police - up from its previous mandate of 7,000 troops and 900 police.

The request from Ban Ki-moon came after the discovery of mass graves, as the country slides into a bloody ethnic conflict. Thousands of people may have been killed in South Sudan in one week, UN officials fear.

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More News On The Escalating Crisis In South Sudan

Thousands dead in South Sudan violence, UN says -- BBC
'Thousands' killed as South Sudan slides towards civil war -- AFP
Mass grave with 75 bodies inside discovered in South Sudan as fighting consumes half the country and UN camps are swamped with refugees -- Daily Mail
'Thousands dead' in South Sudan as UN votes to send more peacekeepers -- Deutsche Welle
UN increases troops in South Sudan to 12,500 -- Washington Post/AP
UN sends more peacekeepers to South Sudan as violence spreads -- Reuters
UN Council approves 6,000 more S.Sudan peacekeepers -- AFP
With Thousands Dead in South Sudan, UN Will Nearly Double Troops -- ABC news
U.N. boosts South Sudan troop force as ethnic violence flares -- L.A. Times
UN Sending More Peacekeepers to Quell Fighting in South Sudan -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Mass grave fuels fears of ethnic bloodshed in South Sudan -- Global Post/Reuters
U.N. Security Council Authorizes More Peacekeeping Troops for South Sudan -- New York Times
Security Council OKs thousands more troops to South Sudan -- CNN
South Sudan army retake strategic town in oil-rich state -- Xinhuanet
South Sudan: Army Retakes State Capitals from Rebels -- Voice of America
South Sudan "spiraling into disaster" -- CNN
South Sudan: What's going on -- Tom Cohen, CNN