South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have signed a ceasefire and power-sharing agreement, ending the nation’s five year civil war.

South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011, and the civil war fuelled by personal and ethnic rivalries broke out two years later.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced an estimated quarter of South Sudan's population of 12 million and ruined its oil-reliant economy.