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Africa leaders push South Sudan sides to revive peace, delay vote
The forum would be set up urgently, leaders from the East African bloc IGAD said, without specifying when or what form it would take.
Oil-rich South Sudan has been ravaged by civil war since 2013, when President Salva Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, fired his deputy Riek Machar, an ethnic Nuer.