The United States has ordered all its non-emergency staff in South Sudan to leave, amid rising tensions in the country.

Issing the directive, the US State Department warned that fighting was ongoing in South Sudan between various political and ethnic groups and that “weapons are readily available to the population”.

Fighting in recent days has threatened an already fragile peace deal between President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar.

President Kiir had called for calm and assured that the country would not return to war.

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