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Input: Image copyright AFP Image caption More than 40% of South Sudan's population is in need of food aid 
  
 South Sudan's army and allied militias "abducted, torched and gang-raped girls" during fighting against rebel forces, a UN report says. 
  
 Investigators found that at least 172 women and girls were abducted and subjected to sexual violence, it added. 
  
 One woman was "dragged out of her hut and gang-raped in front of her three-year old child", the report said. 
  
 The government denies its army has committed atrocities but says it will study the report. 
  
 The UN Mission in South Sudan (Unmiss) said abuses during the 18-month civil war had reached a new scale of intensity and horror in recent fighting in the oil-producing Unity State. 
  
 "Survivors spoke of a campaign against the local population that killed civilians, looted and destroyed villages," the report said. 
  
 "Some of the most disturbing allegations compiled by Unmiss human rights officers focused on the abduction and sexual abuse of women and girls, some of whom were reportedly burnt alive in their dwellings," it added. 
  
 Image caption South Sudan's army has been battling rebels since 2013 
  
 The report added that in one incident, a woman was made to hold red-hot coals in her hands in an attempt to force her to reveal the whereabouts of rebel fighters. 
  
 President Salva Kiir's spokesman Ateng Wek Ateng told the BBC he did not believe that troops would commit atrocities against their own people. 
  
 However, he said the allegations contained in the report were "too serious to ignore". 
  
 The government would study the report, and take appropriation, he added. 
  
 The military launched a major offensive against rebel forces in April, with fierce fighting in Unity state's northern Mayom district, once a key oil producing area. 
  
 The civil war began in December 2013 after Mr Kiir accused his sacked deputy Riek Machar of plotting a coup. 
  
 Mr Machar denied the allegation, but then formed a rebel army to fight the government. 
  
 Various efforts to mediate an end to the conflict in South Sudan, the world's newest state, have failed. 
  
 Earlier this month, a UN humanitarian co-ordinator in the country, Toby Lanzer, was expelled by the government. 
  
 Reports say he was kicked out for highlighting the plight of those caught in the conflict. ||||| South Sudan’s army raped then burned girls alive inside their homes during a recent campaign notable for its “new brutality and intensity”, a UN rights report said on Tuesday. 
  
 Rights investigators from the UN mission in the Republic of South Sudan (Unmiss) warned of “widespread human rights abuses”, including gang-rape and torture in a report based on 115 victims and eyewitnesses from the northern state of Unity, scene of some of the heaviest recent fighting in the 18-month-long civil war. 
  
 The military, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), launched a major offensive against rebel forces in April, with fierce fighting in Unity state’s northern Mayom district, once a key oil-producing area. 
  
 “Survivors of these attacks reported that SPLA and allied militias from Mayom county carried out a campaign against the local population that killed civilians, looted and destroyed villages and displaced over 100,000 people,” the UN said. 
  
 “Some of the most disturbing allegations compiled by Unmiss human rights officers focused on the abduction and sexual abuse of women and girls, some of whom were reportedly burned alive in their dwellings.” 
  
 Investigators said they had collected at least nine separate incidents where “women and girls were burned in tukuls (huts) after being gang-raped” as well as scores of cases of sexual violence, many the rape of mothers in front of their children. 
  
 The UN said ​​it had tried to visit the sites of atrocities described by witnesses, but was denied access by the army 
  
 Photographs in the report, seen by AFP, show the burnt circles left after huts were set on fire, with all buildings apparently razed to the ground. 
  
 One witness described seeing “government forces gang-raping a lactating mother after tossing her baby aside”, the report read. Another described how troops made a women squeeze “burning-red coals” in her hands to reveal the whereabouts of rebels or cattle. 
  
 Rebel forces have also been accused of carrying out atrocities, including rape, killings and the recruitment of child soldiers. 
  
 There was no immediate response from the army, which has previously dismissed allegations of rights abuses. The UN said the report had been handed to government officials, who were yet to comment on its findings. 
  
 The UN said it had tried to visit the sites of the atrocities described by witnesses, but was routinely denied access by the army. 
  
 The Unmiss chief, Ellen Margrethe Loej, called for “unfettered access” to investigate the reported crimes. “Revealing the truth of what happened offers the best hope for ensuring accountability for such terrible violence and ending the cycle of impunity that allows these abuses to continue,” she said. 
  
 The civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, setting off a cycle of retaliatory killings that have split the poverty-stricken country along ethnic lines. 
  
 The upsurge in fighting “has not only been marked by allegations of killing, rape, abduction, looting, arson and displacement, but by a new brutality and intensity”, the UN statement added. “The scope and level of cruelty that has characterised the reports suggests a depth of antipathy that exceeds political differences.” 
  
 The UN children’s agency, Unicef, said in a report this month that the warring forces have carried out horrific crimes against children, including castration, rape and killings. 
  
 Four years after South Sudan won its independence, two-thirds of the country’s 12 million people need aid, according to the UN, and one-sixth have fled their homes. 
  
 Kiir and Machar met last weekend in the Kenyan capital Nairobi for the latest push to strike a peace deal, but rebel spokesman Mabior Garang said they “failed to bear any tangible results”. 
  
  
  
 At least seven ceasefires have been signed and broken during successive rounds of talks. 
  
 Even as the Nairobi talks were under way, a key regional capital in South Sudan reportedly changed hands once again as a renegade tribal warlord attacked the town of Malakal and declared his allegiance to Machar’s rebels. 
  
 A rebel statement said that former government general Johnson Olony – accused by aid agencies of forcibly recruiting hundreds of child soldiers – was in “full control” of the ruined town of Malakal, the state capital of Upper Nile, but the army dismissed the claim. ||||| NAIROBI, Kenya — Even as South Sudan’s president, Salva Kiir, and his longtime rival, the rebel leader Riek Machar, met here at the behest of Kenya’s president to end South Sudan’s civil war, Mr. Machar’s forces captured the strategic city of Malakal. 
  
 “My two brothers held five hours of face-to-face talks last night, which is important to build confidence and trust between them, in order to cement a viable path of peace,” the Kenyan president, Uhuru Kenyatta, said in a statement. 
  
 The talks have yet to produce a breakthrough, though “progress is being made,” according to Mabior Garang, a spokesman for the rebels. Mr. Garang also confirmed that on Saturday evening, rebel forces seized control of Malakal, an important oil center and the capital of Unity State. Malakal has changed hands several times during the conflict. 
  
 A South Sudanese military spokesman, Philip Aguer, could not be reached for comment. 
  
 A civil war has been raging in South Sudan since fighting erupted in December 2013 between forces loyal to Mr. Kiir and rebels allied with Mr. Machar, his former vice president. Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been killed in the fighting, and about two million have been displaced. 
  
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 The Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, which is made up of East African countries and has served as a mediator in talks at Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, last week put forward a new “compromise” proposal to move the talks forward. The proposal involves security and power-sharing arrangements. 
  
 As part of Mr. Kenyatta’s peacemaking efforts, a group of former political detainees who had gone into exile in Kenya have returned to Juba and been reintegrated into the ruling party, including Pagan Amum, who was reinstated as secretary general 
  
 On Wednesday, the United States put forward a proposal at the United Nations Security Council that called for sanctions against six top military leaders from the warring parties, three from each side. |||||
Output:
Violence in South Sudan, which broke from Sudan in 2011, has escalated to "a new brutality and intensity," according to a new UN report accusing the Sudan People's Liberation Army of carrying out a campaign of "killing, rape, abduction, looting, arson, and displacement." It notes 100,000 people have been displaced, while at least 172 women and girls have been raped and abducted. Among "the most disturbing allegations" are reports of nine separate incidents in which females were "burnt alive" in their homes after being gang-raped, reports the AFP. The report also describes how a woman was "dragged out of her hut and gang-raped in front of her 3-year-old child," per the BBC. Another was forced to hold red-hot coals in an attempt to get her to disclose the location of rebels or cattle. A spokesman for President Salva Kiir tells the BBC that soldiers wouldn’t commit such acts against their own people, but the government will review the allegations—based on accounts from 115 victims and eyewitnesses in the state of Unity—because they are "too serious to ignore." South Sudan, where boys have also been abducted, has been embroiled in a civil war since 2013 when Kiir accused his deputy, Riek Machar, of planning a coup. A rebel army led by Machar was then formed to battle the government in a war that has claimed thousands of lives. Rebels say "progress is being made" during talks between Machar and Kiir, held in Kenya, but the battle rages on, reports the New York Times; As talks were under way on Saturday, Machar's forces moved in to capture the strategic city of Malakal.