By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudanese government security officers prevented several local U.N. staff from travelling to Uganda this week in two incidents believed to based on their ethnicity, U.N. officials said on Wednesday. South Sudan has been in political turmoil since President Salva Kiir sacked his deputy Riek Machar last year, triggering a conflict that has reopened deep ethnic tensions in the world's youngest country which only won independence from Sudan in 2011. U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that four national U.N. staff were denied permission to board a U.N. plane on Monday by National Security officers from the government of South Sudan and their passports were confiscated. "A similar incident occurred with two other UNMISS national staff members at the airport yesterday." UNMISS is the U.N. peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. Read More http://ift.tt/1qRzzJG
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