South Sudanese forces clashed with rebels on the outskirts of the flashpoint town of Bor on Tuesday, its mayor said, as a deadline imposed by East African nations for an end to hostilities neared.
The African Union threatened targeted sanctions late on Monday against those inciting the violence and impeding international efforts to negotiate an end to the fighting that risks drawing in the wider region.
South Sudan’s neighbours have given the warring factions until the end of Tuesday to lay down their arms and begin negotiations – but there has been no sign of the hostilities ending.
Two weeks of fighting have killed more than a thousand people in the world’s youngest country, raising the phantom of civil war and upsetting oil markets.
“We are fighting the rebels now,” Mayor Nhial Majak Nhial told a news agency by phone from the edge of Bor, which lies (120 miles) to the north of the capital, Juba.
The clashes erupted on December 15 with fighting among a group of soldiers in the capital, Juba.
The violence has spread to half of the country’s ten states, resulting in ethnic divisions in the nation of rebel leader Riek Machar’s Nuer group and President Salva Kiir’s Dinka ethnic group.
Au will decided what possible to them if they are position strong because it is not first time to Dr. Riek (become part of his live) to kill civilians that he claimed to govern them, more deadline without action can convienced Machar and the Lou Nuer are they always they most victims.
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