AK-47s, pistols and machetes were among the weapons that were fed into a weapons-shearing machine and cut into small, unusable pieces.
The attack in Upper Nile state comes two weeks after an Antonov, believed to be from Sudan, bombed a village in Western Bahr el Ghazal state,injuring 24 people.
Information Minister Michael Makuei says the proposal was rejected by IGAD heads of state and government, who have given South Sudan just two weeks to hammer out the details of a transitional government.
"I will start my life from zero. If there is no war, I will succeed," says Bor returnee Joseph Chaar Anyuat, who spent months in Uganda before returning home to Jonglei state three weeks ago.
The bill gives security forces the right to arrest suspected criminals without a warrant.
Members of women's groups tell government negotiators to return to the negotiating table for the sake of the 1.5 million people displaced by the conflict and the nearly four million facing severe food insecurity.
The director of Bakhita Radio, which has been off the air since the weekend, says taking all political content out of the station's programs will be tough in a country like South Sudan.
The head of the commission, former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, says the investigative team will visit fighting hotspots "so that we can advise how to stop the bleeding and to get a process of healing."
Fighting breaks out in Unity and Upper Nile states as the European Union imposes sanctions on a militia leader and an SPLA commander who it says violated a January ceasefire.
A spokesman for the government says it is surprised that an SPLA commander was sanctioned, insisting that all members of government forces are respecting the ceasefire.
Analysts say President Salva Kiir has to do much more to live up to the promises he made when South Sudan became an independent nation three years ago.
In a speech to launch the long-awaited airport renovation, the president of South Sudan accuses former government officials of pilfering funds intended for infrastructure improvement.
Presidential spokesman Ateny Wek Ateny says no one should fear they will be harassed or harmed if they criticize the government or the system of governance.
A Foreign Ministry official says that unlike countries like Somalia or CAR, South Sudan acted quickly to try to end the conflict that got it on the list in the first place.
An analyst from a South Sudanese think tank doubts that President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar have the commitment to stick to a 60-day timeline to set up a transitional government.
A week after President Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar agreed to a 60-day timeline to set up a transitional government, South Sudan's president insists he has to be head of it.
President Salva Kiir lodges a protest with IGAD after the bloc's executive secretary was quoted in the media as saying Kiir and Riek Machar are stupid to think they can resolve South Sudan's crisis on the battlefield.
SPLA spokesman Philip Aguer admits there have been some desertions but dismisses reports that thousands of soldiers have left their posts in parts of Jonglei state.
The Foreign Ministry denies accusations made against the government by former top diplomat Francis Nazario, who resigned and fled the country this week.
The announcement by the UNMISS chief, that she will be leaving in July, comes days after the UN Security Council extended the South Sudan mission's mandate.
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