
South Sudan Peace Talks
Interviews, news and analysis of the day’s global events.
The South Sudanese leader, Salva Kiir, and the rebel leader, Riek Machar, are due to hold talks for the first time in two years, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The country has been devastated by civil war since 2013. We will look at the role played by the Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed.
Also in the programme: An inquiry into deaths of elderly patients at a British hospital has found that more than 450 died after being given powerful painkillers without medical justification; and Newshour's James Coomarasamy on the changing face of the Russian countryside.
(Photo: South Sudan"s President Salva Kiir (left) and South Sudan's rebel leader Riek Machar (right). Credit: Getty Images.
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- Wed 20 Jun 201813:06GMTBBC World Service except East and Southern Africa, News Internet & West and Central Africa
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