SOUTH SUDAN – Gunfire from heavy weaponry was exchanged for much of Sunday outside a United Nations building on the outskirts of South Sudan’s capital Juba, in fresh violence after a day of relative calm, the U.N. mission to the country said.

The mission sent out a series of tweets at about 8:25 a.m. (1:25 a.m. ET) describing gunshots and a heavily armed exchange outside a U.N. compound. The U.S. Embassy issued an alert saying that fighting between government and opposition forces was ongoing at the U.N. mission’s headquarters, the Jebel area of the city and near the airport. The U.N. mission in South Sudan, known as UNMISS, said it was outraged at the resumption of violence on Sunday. It said that 1,000 internally displaced people had fled its protection as violence hit areas near their camps.(CNN)…[+]