South Sudan: A Failure to Act
**Some viewers may find parts of this report difficult to listen to**\n\u201cHiding in the bathroom. They\u2019re trying to break down our door. We maybe have about five minutes.\u201d Juba, capital of South Sudan, 11 July 2016. The female aid worker sending this message was among a number of international and local staff taking refuge behind a bullet proof door in the housing compound where they lived. Tensions were running high in South Sudan\u2019s three year civil war and government troops had gone on the rampage attacking the compound. As the soldiers tried to break down the door, the terrified group frantically appealed to United Nations peacekeepers based just over a kilometer away. Using their phones and sending messages via Skype and Facebook their calls for help went unheeded.