Across South Sudan, children have been used as soldiers, leading to 3,100 becoming demobilised.

At least 85 people were killed in South Sudan when a crowd tried to gather fuel from an oil tanker that had veered off the road on its way to a region west of the capital Juba, a presidential spokesman said.

FIVE people have died from the deadly Ebola virus in southern Sudan and a Russian researcher also died after sticking herself with a needle containing the virus.