South Sudan general resigns, says leader 'disgraced' himself

Warnings of genocide hang over South Sudan, where a 2015 peace deal has failed to stop the three-year civil war that has killed tens of thousands and forced 1.5 million to flee.

Non-Dinka tribes in South Sudan are being neglected, Swaka writes, and "soldiers from the Dinka ethnic group have been strategically deployed and posted in non-Dinka areas to support the policy of land occupation and enforcing the agenda of forceful Dinkanization and domination of the country."

"The risk that mass atrocities will be committed remains ever-present," the U.N. secretary-general's adviser on genocide prevention, Adama Dieng, said this week.