ADDIS ABABA: South Sudan’s warring parties were set to begin direct talks on Saturday in a bid to end the conflict pushing the world’s youngest nation towards civil war as fighting intensified for control of a key oil town.

On Friday the army moved on rebel-held Bor as government and rebel negotiating teams gathered at a luxury hotel in neighboring Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa.

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