(10 May 2014) South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a cease-fire agreement after a vicious cycle of revenge killings drew international alarm.
The peace deal was signed on Friday in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, where the country's Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn mediated the talks between the two leaders.
Ethnically targeted violence in the world's youngest country broke out in December, killing thousands of people and forcing more than 1.3 (m) million to flee their homes.
Friday's meeting was the first face-to-face encounter between Kiir and Machar since the mass violence began, and it came a week after US Secretary of State, John Kerry, met with Kiir to urge a revitalisation of peace talks.
The previous cease-fire in January between Kiir and Machar fell apart within days.

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