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| South Sudan ceasefire talks open in Ethiopia | |
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| Talks to end the South Sudan conflict have opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia's foreign ministry says. | |
| Negotiators for the government and rebel sides have been meeting mediators but have not yet held face-to-face talks, it is understood. | |
| Delegates began arriving in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday but talks were delayed until the full negotiations teams had arrived. | |
| Meanwhile, the US is moving out some of its embassy staff from South Sudan. | |
| The state department announced a "further drawdown" of its embassy in Juba, and said it would no longer be providing consular services to US citizens in the country. | |
| It also urged citizens to leave on an evacuation flight from Juba "to the nearest safe haven country" on Friday. | |
| At least 1,000 people have died and more than 180,000 people have been displaced in fighting that erupted in mid-December. | |
| What began as a power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar has taken on the overtones of an ethnic conflict, correspondents say. | |
| Aid workers are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of people are living without shelter, clean water and sanitation. |