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UN Security Council meets on South Sudan fighting

by André VIOLLAZ JUBA, South Sudan (AFP) — The UN Security Council pressed South Sudan’s neighbors Sunday to help end renewed fighting in the capital, asking for additional peacekeepers. In a unanimous declaration, the council’s 15 member countries also demanded that President Salva Kiir and his Vice President Riek Machar “do their utmost to control their respective forces, urgently end the fighting and prevent the spread of violence.” It called for the two rivals to […]