US sends envoy to violence-plagued South Sudan

December 21, 2013 15:59

The United States and other foreign powers stepped up pressure on South Sudan's feuding ethnic factions to settle their differences, as Washington dispatched an envoy to the violence-wracked region.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said yesterday he was sending a special envoy to encourage talks between opposing factions in the world's newest country, which has erupted into brutal fighting with a mounting death toll.

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