Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan’s civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain’s International Development Minister Priti Patel.

"It’s tribal, it’s absolutely tribal, so on that basis it’s genocide," Patel told reporters in Uganda Wednesday, according to a ministry press officer travelling with her.

Patel was returning from a visit to South Sudan where people have "experienced trauma and horror none of us can comprehend", she told AFP in a separate interview.

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