UN boost in S.Sudan likely complete within two months-official
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Spokesperson for the South Sudanese rebels Maar Nyout addresses journalists during ongoing negotiations with the South Sudanese government, in Addis Ababa
Spokesperson for the South Sudanese rebels Hussein Maar Nyout addresses journalists during ongoing negotiations with the South Sudanese government, in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 9, 2014. South Sudanese rebels rejected a government plan on Wednesday to end a dispute over detainees and unblock peace talks aimed at halting violence that has killed at least 1,000 people in the world's youngest state. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
Spokesperson for the South Sudanese rebels Maar Nyout addresses journalists during ongoing negotiations with the South Sudanese government, in Addis Ababa
Spokesperson for the South Sudanese rebels Hussein Maar Nyout addresses journalists during ongoing negotiations with the South Sudanese government, in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa, January 9, 2014. South Sudanese rebels rejected a government plan on Wednesday to end a dispute over detainees and unblock peace talks aimed at halting violence that has killed at least 1,000 people in the world's youngest state. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri (ETHIOPIA - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST)
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Already a refugee from Darfur, one young man unexpectedly gets ensnared in South Sudan's violence ? and is rescued by UN teamwork.
COLUMN-Gates, Obama and denying reality in the Middle East
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South Sudan rebels reject govt. plan to unblock peace talks
The fighting is the worst in South Sudan since it won independence from Sudan in 2011
S.Sudan rebels reject government plan to unblock peace talks
Three weeks of fighting, often along ethnic faultlines, has pitted President Salva Kiir's SPLA government forces against the rebels loyal to former vice president Riek Machar and brought the country close to civil war