South Sudan Warring Factions Ink Truce as Fighting Rages

Negotiators for the South Sudanese government and rebel forces have signed a one-month truce, an official at slow-moving peace talks in Addis Ababa said Monday, as the two sides continued to fight for control of two towns in the oil-producing north of the country. A spokesman for the opposition, Hussein Mar Nyuot, told South Sudan in Focus from Addis Ababa -- where peace talks for South Sudan resumed last week -- that the two sides agreed to stop fighting for one month to allow hundreds...

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