{Talks to end the South Sudan conflict have opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s foreign ministry says.}<\/p>\n
Negotiators for the government and rebel sides have been meeting mediators but have not yet held face-to-face talks, it is understood.<\/p>\n
Delegates began arriving in the Ethiopian capital on Wednesday but talks were delayed until the full negotiations teams had arrived.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the US is moving out some of its embassy staff from South Sudan.<\/p>\n
The state department announced a “further drawdown” of its embassy in Juba, and said it would no longer be providing consular services to US citizens in the country.<\/p>\n
It also urged citizens to leave on an evacuation flight from Juba “to the nearest safe haven country” on Friday.<\/p>\n
At least 1,000 people have died and more than 180,000 people have been displaced in fighting that erupted in mid-December.<\/p>\n
What began as a power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar has taken on the overtones of an ethnic conflict, correspondents say. <\/p>\n
Aid workers are warning of a potential humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of people are living without shelter, clean water and sanitation<\/p>\n
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