South Sudan's President Salva Kiir speaks during a news conference in Juba, April 25, 2014. REUTERS/Emre Rende
NAIROBI (Reuters) - South Sudan's president Salva Kiir said on Friday he was ready to hold face-to-face talks with rebel leader Riek Machar to try to end more than four months of violence, in a statement released by the Kenyan presidency.
Kiir travelled to Kenya to brief regional leaders shortly after meeting U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in the South Sudanese capital Juba.
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