A Look Back at 2014 in South Sudan

People gather at a makeshift camp at the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) compound in Juba, Dec. 22, 2013, a week after South Sudan erupted in violence.

Members of South Sudan's rebel delegation talk with US Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan Donald E. Booth (R) on Jan. 4, 2014 during talks in Addis Ababa to try to broker a ceasefire deal between government and rebel forces.

South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar at an undisclosed location in Jonglei State, Feb. 1, 2014.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir addresses the media in Juba, South Sudan.

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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power (L), Security Council President Mark Lyall Grant (C) meet in Juba with South Sudan President Salva Kiir during a two-day visit to South Sudan in August 2014.

President Salva Kiir addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014.

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir (L) and the country's rebel leader, Riek Machar, exchange a signed recommitment to cease fighting in Addis Ababa on May 9, 2014.

South Sudan Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin makes a point to reporters at a news conference in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 4, 2014.

Displaced people gather around a water truck to fill containers at a United Nations compound in the capital, Juba, that has become home to thousands of people displaced by fighting.

The United States special envoy to South Sudan Donald Booth, Dec. 31, 2013.

Internally displaced people carry water from outside as they walk toward the entrance of a United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan base in Malakal, Feb. 6, 2014.

A displaced South Sudanese woman carries a plastic jerry can with water in the United Nations camp that has become home to thousands of displaced people in Malakal, South Sudan, Feb. 26, 2014. (AP Photo/Ilya Gridneff)

A U.N. peacekeeper stands guard at the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in Malakal, where thousands of civilians have sought shelter.

Children living at the UNMISS compound in Malakal hang around near a UNICEF tent. There are no schools at the UNMISS base, and the schools in town are shut.

A man looks at what remains of a house in Malakal, South Sudan.

A severely malnourished child lies on the bed at a hospital in Bentiu, South Sudan, run by medial charity Doctors Without Borders, on July 3, 2014.

A South Sudanese government soldier stands with others near their vehicles, after government forces on Friday retook from rebel forces the provincial capital of Bentiu, in Unity State, South Sudan, Sunday, Jan 12, 2014.

Rebel soldiers patrol and protect civilians as the civilians walk through flooded areas to reach a makeshift camp for the displaced situated in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) base in the town of Bentiu, South

Slain bodies of civilians lie along a road in Bentiu, Unity state of South Sudan.

People fleeing violence in Bentiu, the capital of Unity state, South Sudan, arrive at the UNMISS base in the town on April 15, 2014 to seek shelter. Photo: UNMISS/Mihad Abdallah

A man carries a bed past South Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) national army soldiers patroling the town of Bentiu following its capture, Jan. 12, 2014.

Civilians crush up against the gates of the UNMISS compound in Bor, Jonglei state, days after South Sudan erupted in violence in December 2013.

A South Sudan army soldier stands next to a machine gun mounted on a truck in Malakal town, some 500 km (312 miles) northeast of the capital, Juba.

A young boy stands in front of the tree in a camp for the displaced in Mingkamen, where he and his family fled as violence raked the town of Bor in Jonglei state.

UN human rights chief Navi Pillay and the Secretary General's Special Advisor Adama Dieng visit the UN camp in Bor where scores of civilians were killed in an attack in April.

Traders sell goods at a market in Bor, June 18, 2014, as the town trickles back to life. Bor was one of the towns hardest hit by fighting in South Sudan.

A picture shows an aerial view of a camp of internally displaced people in Minkammen, 25 kilometres (16 miles) south of Bor, Jan. 10, 2014.