East African leaders set new talks deadline for South Sudan


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  • Tuesday, 26 Aug 2014

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir speaks during a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry at the U.S.-Africa Business Forum in Washington August 5, 2014. REUTERS/Jim Bourg

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - East African leaders on Monday gave South Sudan's warring sides six weeks to agree on a transitional government after a deadline earlier this month was missed and fighting rumbled on instead.

Meeting in Addis Ababa, heads of state from the regional African grouping IGAD said the two sides should agree to a plan for setting up a transitional government that would include a new post of prime minister.

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