Nairobi, March 9 -- South Sudan's troubles as a young country have been in plain sight for a decade now. But new findings say frequent human rights violations have weakened its institutions to the brink of state collapse.

The details are contained in a UN Commission on Human Rights report on South Sudan which has listed unchecked mass violence and entrenched repression in South Sudan as immediate threats to the prospects of durable peace.

The country is in the middle of an election plan; whose tentative schedule is for December this year. But officials had already sounded alarm on lack of funds. Institutional weaknesses will add to the challenge to a country struggling to hold its first ever elections independence era.

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