People walk on the other side of barbed wire where makeshift graves were placed in the Jebel area in Juba on July 22, 2016. By Charles Atiki Lomodong (AFP/File)



Addis Ababa (AFP) - South Sudan on Friday accepted the deployment of a regional intervention force after escalating violence put a fragile peace deal in danger, the head of the East African bloc IGAD said.


"The government of South Sudan accepted," Mahboub Maalim said after a summit in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, adding that the scope and mandate of the force have yet to be decided.


Source: AFP