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UN chief arrives in S. Sudan for talks with President Kiir

Xinhua, February 26, 2016 Adjust font size:

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday arrived in Juba on a one-day visit to South Sudan, local media Eye Radio reported.

"As soon as he arrived in Juba, Ban embarked on closed-door talks with South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit," according to the report.

The talks focused on opportunities to achieve peace in the new-born country, it said.

The talks are also expected to discuss the recent violent attack against a UN base sheltering civilians in Malakal town, the capital city of Upper Nile State in South Sudan, where at least 18 people were killed and 90 others injured.

Earlier media reports indicated involvement of the government army in the violence at the UN base, but Juba denied those reports, saying that what happened was fighting between members of tribes inside the base and the government had nothing to do with it.

The UN base is sheltering around 50,000 civilians out of about 201,000 displaced South Sudanese spreading across eight such bases in the country.

South Sudan plunged into violence in December 2013, when fighting erupted between troops loyal to President Salva Kiir Mayardit and defectors led by his former deputy Riek Machar.

The clashes have left thousands of South Sudanese dead and forced around 1.9 million people to flee their homes. Endit