South Sudan: Warring parties head to Ethiopia for peace talks

“We don’t want to expose the people of South Sudan to a senseless war,” South Sudan’s Foreign Minister Barnaba Marial Benjamin said on a government Twitter feed on Wednesday. Kiir has accused his long-term political rival Machar, whom he dismissed in July on corruption charges, of starting the fighting in a bid to seize power.

South Sudan’s neighbors, and international partners played a central role in negotiations that ended decades of war with Sudan to the north and led to the secession of South Sudan in 2011, and have been scrambling to stem the latest violence.

Source: Reuters

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