S. Sudan Factions Face Looming Deadline to Avoid UN Sanctions

With less than 12 hours to go, South Sudan’s warring factions are still not any closer to signing a comprehensive peace deal that will avoid United Nations sanctions.  "Little to no progress" has been the main descriptor of successive rounds of talks to mediate an end to fighting that began as a political dispute between South Sudan’s president and his deputy in December 2013.   The parties came together again in late February in Addis Ababa for last-minute...

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