Source: Reuters - AlertNet
Country: South Sudan (Republic of)
By Carl Odera
JUBA, Dec 21 (Reuters) - African mediators sought on Saturday to meet rivals to South Sudan's president in a bid to end fighting that threatens to drag the world's newest country into an ethnic civil war.
Hundreds of people have been killed in nearly a week of clashes that spread from the capital Juba and have reached vital oilfields, deepening the most serious internal crisis since the state won independence from Sudan two years ago.