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Warring Parties Sign Cease-Fire In South Sudan

Previous agreements have quickly collapsed. The ongoing civil war has created one of the world's worst humanitarian crises.
South Sudan President Salva Kiir, left, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, center, and South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar appear after talks in Khartoum aimed at ending South Sudan's civil war.

The president of South Sudan and his former vice president, who now leads the country's largest rebel group, announced a permanent cease-fire Wednesday following talks in Sudan's capital.

In the latest of many unsuccessful attempts to stem more than four years of bloodshed in South Sudan's civil war, President

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