Civilians sit under the shade of a blanket they placed over a small tree outside the gate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound, hoping to benefit from U.N. protection, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. More pics after cut..
A young man balances a bed on his head as he walks through empty streets and destroyed buildings, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP)
Civilians who fled the recent fighting stack their belongings up outside the gate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound, hoping to benefit from U.N. protection, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP)
A young boy pushes a bicycle towards the gate of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP)
An ostrich runs through empty streets and past destroyed buildings, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP)
South Sudanese People's Liberation Army (SPLA) national army soldiers patrol the streets with a pickup truck after capturing the town of Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan. Mediators pushed hard for a cease-fire in South Sudan as fighting raged Sunday for the last rebel-held town and the full extent of the destruction wrought began to emerge. (Simon Maina / AFP/Getty Images)
An SPLA soldier stands on the back of a pickup truck in Bentiu, Unity State, South Sudan. (Andreea Campeanu / Reuters)
South Sudanese government forces drive past the body of a rebel soldier, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan. (Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin / AP)
A woman sits under a mosquito net near the White Nile at a site used by displaced people in Minkammen village in South Sudan. According to the latest figures from the United Nations, about 75,000 people have settled in Minkammen following clashes in the nearby city of Bor between the South Sudanese army and rebels led by Riek Machar, the country’s former vice president. (Phil Moore / Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
A man carries an AK-47 assault rifle at the Minkammen village’s port in South Sudan. Three African envoys headed to the young nation on Saturday to try to persuade rebel leader Riek Machar to accept a cease-fire deal to end fighting that threatens to pitch the country into civil war. (Phil Moore / Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
Children walk through river water as they get off a boat at the port in Minkammen village in South Sudan. (Phil Moore / Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
A woman prays at a church service in the village of Minkammen in South Sudan. (Phil Moore / Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
People fleeing the clashes arrive in Minkammen village in South Sudan. (Phil Moore / Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
Men rest in a shelter at Tomping camp, where about 17,000 people who fled their homes are being sheltered by the United Nations, in Juba, the capital of South Sudan. Violence erupted in Juba in mid-December and spread to oil-producing regions and beyond, dividing the two-year-old country along ethnic lines. About 60,000 civilians are being protected at U.N. bases. (Andreea Campeanu / Reuters)
A member of Doctors Without Borders administers polio vaccines to children in the Minkammen village in South Sudan. About 80,000 displaced people from South Sudan's volatile Bor region have fled to safety in sprawling, dusty camps in the Awerial region across the Nile River. The United Nations refugee agency warned that fighting in South Sudan could drive more than half a million people from their homes, doubling the number of those affected by April. (Nichole Sobecki / Agence France-Presse via Getty Images)
A girl sleeps as people go about their daily life in Minkammen, South Sudan. Some 80,000 displaced people from the country’s volatile Bor region have fled to safety in sprawling, dusty camps in the Awerial region across the Nile River. The unrest began Dec. 15, as a clash between army units loyal to South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and those loyal to former vice president Riek Machar. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
Women and children crowd around a water point at dusk, in Minkammen, South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
People receive food aid and other items such as soap, plastic mats and buckets from an International Committee of the Red Cross delivery in Minkammen, South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
A woman covers her face as a U.N. helicopter takes off from Minkammen, South Sudan, where people receive food aid and other items from an International Committee of the Red Cross delivery. An Agence France-Presse reporter reached the town and said that the area was flooded with fleeing civilians and that the rumble of heavy artillery fire could be heard in the distance. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
People unload the few belongings that they were able to bring with them to the camps in Minkammen, South Sudan. Hundreds of civilians fleeing violence in the Bor region arrived at dawn at one of the many small ports that run alongside the camps in the Awerial region, having crossed over the Nile River by night. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
People unload their belongings in Minkammen, South Sudan. Thousands of exhausted civilians are crowding into the fishing village of Minkammen, a once-tiny riverbank settlement of a few thatch huts 20 miles southwest of Bor. Some say they had spent days hiding out in the bush outside Bor as gunmen battled for control of the town, which has exchanged hands three times in the conflict and remains in rebel control. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
Displaced people stand on a boat in Minkammen, South Sudan. The United Nations has said at least 1,000 people have died. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
Displaced people unload their belongings in Minkammen, South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
Displaced people wait on boats in Minkammen, South Sudan. (Nichole Sobecki / AFP/Getty Images)
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