The government has profiled the country’s second-largest ethnic community, splitting the counties where they are dominant into “friendly” and “hostile”.

Attack helicopters bombed the only functional hospital in Fangak county in South Sudan’s Jonglei State on May 3, leaving “a catchment of over 100,000 people” with no access to critical medical care, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).