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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn arrived in Juba Thursday (December 26th) for talks with South Sudanese President Salva Kiir aimed at resolving escalating instability in the country, AFP reported.

The leaders posed for photographs before going into closed door talks. The visit comes amid ongoing efforts by regional powers to bring to a halt nearly two weeks of unrest.

Envoys from Kenya and Ethiopia were already involved in mediation efforts last week, when their respective foreign ministers were part of a regional delegation to Juba.

Kenyan Foreign Minister Amina Mohammed accompanied Kenyatta to Juba, her office said.

Kenya has been sending in flights to evacuate its nationals from South Sudan, where many have set up businesses.

Several thousand people are believed to have been killed since fighting broke out in South Sudan, pitting troops loyal to Kiir against those backing his rival Riek Machar, a former vice president who was sacked in July.

The unrest has taken on an ethnic dimension, pitting 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 United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan force to 12,500 troops and 1,323 civilian police.

The African Union (AU) and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have publicly expressed concern over the escalation of violence.

“The AU and IGAD are profoundly concerned by reports of the mobilisation of tribal militias in South Sudan, which threaten to further escalate the conflict and transform it into an exceptionally destructive inter-ethnic violence that would put in danger the very existence of South Sudan,” the groups said in a statement.

IGAD is expected to hold a summit on the South Sudan conflict in Nairobi on Friday

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