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South Sudan clashes: UN fears civil war as barrel bombs dropped in Upper Nile

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UN says barrel bombs believed to contain highly flammable liquid used in airstrikes in South Sudan .

Comments follow recent fighting between army and rebel militia, known as White Army .

Rebels overran a military base in the northern town of Nasir in oil-rich Upper Nile State .

President Salva Kiir and rival Vice-President Riek Machar agreed in August 2018 to end a five-year civil war that killed nearly 400,000 people.

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