Unknown gunmen have attacked the vice president’s convoy in South Sudan. According to reports, three of his bodyguards were injured during the attack on Tuesday.
The State Minister of Information, Jacob Akech Deng, said. “Three people were wounded. These are security guards of the first vice president,” Deng said. “No soldier died and the convoy of the first vice president has reached Bor safely.”
The world’s youngest nation, in 2013, erupted into civil war after President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, a Nuer. The fighting that followed split the country along ethnic lines, spurred hyper-inflation and plunged parts of the nation into famine, creating Africa’s biggest refugee crisis since the Rwandan genocide in 1994.
