South Sudan: How the youngest country in the world has plunged into chaos of war and hunger

Confrontation of factions: But the apparent tranquility did not last. The internal war in southern Sudan began in December 2013, with fighting between two factions of the army divided by rivalry between President Salva Kiir and his former deputy Riek Machar. Different militias united to each side, with confrontations marked by massacres of an ethnic character.