Thousands of people have fled the ongoing fighting in South Sudan and the death toll is now believed to be approaching 10,000. France 24’s Philip Crowther speaks to former US Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan Princeton Lyman about ethnic divisions, ceasefire talks and what the US could have done to prevent the violence erupting.

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