Internally displaced children sit on and around water tanks at Tomping camp in Juba, January 10, 2014, where some 17,000 internally displaced people who fled their homes during the recent violence in the country are being sheltered by the United Nations. REUTERS/Andreea Campeanu
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Three African envoys headed to South Sudan on Saturday to try to persuade rebel leader Riek Machar to accept a ceasefire deal to end fighting that has driven the world's youngest nation to the brink of full-blown civil war.
More than three weeks of fighting between President Salva Kiir's SPLA government forces and rebels loyal to former vice president Machar have killed more than 1,000 people, driven 230,000 from their homes and forced a cut in oil production.
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