South Sudan, the country that fell apart in a month

JUBA: The world’s youngest nation was born with such high hopes, but four weeks since political rivalry spiralled into violence, little stands between impoverished South Sudan and all-out civil war.

“When it is over we will all be losers in this war,” said Mabior Garang, son of South Sudan’s late founding president, and now a member of the rebel delegation at peace talks in Addis Ababa.