South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir (right) and his deputy Riek Machar shake hands in Addis Ababa to signify a peace deal in September, 2018.
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Kiir and Machar have been pivotal figures in most of South Sudan’s short history as an independent nation.
South Sudanese children playing football in the capital Juba.
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Today in South Sudan’s political climate, footballing success may wield more symbolic importance than anything else.
A new phase of South Sudan’s civil war seems to have begun.
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Despite President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar’s calls for calm, hundreds have been killed and thousands displaced in renewed fighting in Juba.