UN, AU Call for South Sudan Talks as Fighting Continues

The United Nations and African Union are calling for an immediate end to the fighting in South Sudan, where regional leaders had hoped to see peace talks begin by Tuesday. Statements from the U.N. Security Council and the A.U.'s Peace and Security Council late Monday said dialogue should begin immediately between President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar. The African Union also urged Kiir's government to release detained political leaders, and threatened to impose...

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