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Pleas for peace amid fear of civil war

AFP, /uba
Heavy fighting was raging in South Sudan's key oil-producing north yesterday, officials said, although neighbours Kenya and Ethiopia said they had made "good progress" in efforts to broker an end to the civil war.
Fears that a new civil war could erupt in South Sudan drove leaders of two neighboring African countries into its capital yesterday.
Army spokesman Philip Aguer said troops loyal to President Salva Kiir were battling forces allied to former vice president Riek Machar inside the town of Malakal, capital ofUpper Nile state.
He also said troops were preparing an offensive against Bentiu, the main town in oil-rich Unity State, to follow on from their recapture of Bor, another state capital that had fallen into rebel hands during the nearly two weeks of clashes in the world' youngest nation.
The violence in South Sudan, a fledgling oil producer which won independence from Sudan just two years ago, has left thousands dead, according to the United Nations.
Ten of thousands of civilians have also sought protection at UN bases amid a wave of ethnic violence pitting members of Kiir's Dinka tribe against Machar's Nuer.
The UN Security Council voted Tuesday to send nearly 6,000 extra soldiers and police to South Sudan, nearly doubling the UNMISS force to 12,500 troops and 1,323 civilian police.
Amid reports of bodies piled in mass graves and witness testimonies of massacres and summary executions and rapes, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has promised those responsible would be "held accountable".
The UN said aid agencies need $166 million (121 million euros) over the next three months to distribute food, manage camps for the displaced and provide health and sanitation.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopia's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn flew
into Juba on Thursday for talks with Presi dent Kiir, the latest in a line of peace brokers who have flown in since the fighting began on December 15.
The fighting started after Kiir accused Machar of attempting a coup. Machar denied this, and said the president was exploiting a clash between members of the army as a pretext to carry out a purge.
Although Kiir and Machar - a former vice president who was sacked in July --have said they are open to peace talks, fighting has spread to half of the country's 10 states.