U.S. Embassy In South Sudan Evacuates Personnel

Displaced people do their daily chores such as bathing, washing clothes, cooking and fetching water at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the c... Displaced people do their daily chores such as bathing, washing clothes, cooking and fetching water at a United Nations compound which has become home to thousands of people displaced by the recent fighting, in the capital Juba, South Sudan Sunday, Dec. 29, 2013. Some 25,000 people live in two hastily arranged camps for the internally displaced in Juba and nearly 40,000 are in camps elsewhere in the country, two weeks after violence broke out in the capital and a spiralling series of ethnically-based attacks coursed through the nation, killing at least 1,000 people. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis) MORE LESS
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JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in South Sudan is evacuating more of its personnel because of a deteriorating security situation.

The embassy said Friday that it is organizing another evacuation flight to leave Friday. The embassy has already organized about a dozen flights since fighting broke out Dec. 15.

The embassy did not give a specific reason why it is evacuating more personnel. An anti-government force controls a state capital about 120 kilometers (70 miles) north of the country capital, Juba. South Sudan’smilitary spokesman says that force wants to advance on to Juba.

The embassy said it will no longer provide consular services in South Sudan as of Saturday.

Even as rebels threaten to march on the capital, representatives for the warring parties are holding preliminary peace talks in Ethiopia.

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