South Sudan Rebels Seize Oil Hub Bentiu, Tell Foreign Firms To Leave

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South Sudan Rebels Say Seize Oil Hub Bentiu, Tell Foreign Firms To Go -- Reuters

* Army confirms there is fighting in Unity state
* Rebels give oil firms a one-week deadline to leave
* Three Russian oil workers injured in attack -source

ADDIS ABABA, April 15 (Reuters) - South Sudanese rebels said on Tuesday they have seized the capital of oil-producing Unity state, Bentiu, and warned oil firms to pack up and leave within a week.

Thousands of people have been killed and more than one million displaced since fighting erupted in South Sudan in the middle of December, triggered by a power struggle between President Salva Kiir and former Vice President Riek Machar.

"The recapturing of Bentiu marks the first phase of liberation of oil fields from (the) anti-democratic and genocidal forces of Kiir," rebel spokesman Lul Ruai Koang said in a statement.

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