The latest news out of the world's newest country, South Sudan:

1. New UNICEF figures put the total amount of child soldiers enlisted in South Sudan's bloody civil war (since 2013) at over 17,000, some 1,300 this year alone. Around 2,000 have been released.

"You either die, or kill your enemy. Everyone is treated the same way, whether young or old," a 16-year-old soldier told Human Rights Watch last year.

2. The UN mission in South Sudan provided arms to a rebel general whose troops committed some of the war's worst atrocities, per a Small Arms Survey report. The UN Security Council later sanctioned him.

3. Government agents forcibly removed an Associated Press reporter this month, putting him on a flight to Uganda.

4. "There is already a steady process of ethnic cleansing underway in several areas of South Sudan using starvation, gang rape and the burning of villages," a UN commission found last month.