South Sudan: UN condemns refugee camp air raid

The UN has denounced the bombing of a camp housing some 5,000 refugees in South Sudan near the border with Sudan.

A boy was injured and 14 other people went missing during the air raid in El Foj in Upper Nile state on Monday, the UN refugee agency said.
A Sudan army spokesman told the BBC that Sudanese forces had not carried out any bombing raids in the area.
South Sudan split from Sudan last July and since then their relationship has deteriorated.
Both countries accuse the other of backing rebels operating in their territories and it is not the first time South Sudan has been bombed - there were attacks in Upper Nile state and Unity state last year.
Refugees fled

The UNHCR says a plane dropped several bombs on Monday morning which landed on the transit site for those who have fled the conflict in Blue Nile over the border in Sudan.
"Bombing of civilian areas must be condemned in the strongest terms," Mireille Girard, UNHCR's representative in South Sudan, said in a statement.
The BBC's James Copnall in Sudan's capital, Khartoum, says the UN did not say who was responsible, but the refugees will almost certainly suspect the Sudanese Armed Forces.
Blue Nile is one of three border areas - along with South Kordofan and Abyei - where fighting has broken out since South Sudan's independence.
Many rebels in these regions fought alongside southerners during the decades-long civil war that ended with Khartoum agreeing to the south's independence.


The UN says more than 78,000 people have
fled Sudan since last August



Sudan's army spokesman Khalid Sawarmi said Sudanese forces had been recently involved in fighting against rebels in Blue Nile in the village of Aroum.

"We attacked them and drove them out of this place. [We] did not use any planes or Antonovs there," he told the BBC.
Following the strike on El Foj, most people have now fled the area or have been helped to relocate by the UN, the agency says.
The authorities in Upper Nile state say they do not have first-hand confirmation of an incident at El Foj.
However Upper Nile's Information Minister Peter Lam Both did accuse Sudan of carrying out another air raid in the state on Sunday.
He told the BBC that three people were killed and four wounded in Khor Yabous, near the border with Sudan.
He also said South Sudan's army had fought off an attack by militias around this time.
The UN says more than 78,000 people have fled Sudan since last August because of fighting in Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile.
Our correspondent says the latest incident highlights the bad relationship between the two countries as well as the difficult situation many refugees face.
Recently the focus has been on oil resources, with South Sudan deciding last week to shut down its production rather than, as it sees it, have some of its oil stolen by the north, he says.
But whatever the full truth of the matter, the greatest concern to many is security not oil, our reporter says.