South Sudan's president in Ethiopia for talks with rebel leader

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir arrived on Friday in Ethiopia's capital for the first face-to-face talks with rebel leader Riek Machar to try to end four months of conflict and avert a possible genocide.

Kiir sacked Machar as deputy president in July, reigniting their long-running political feud. Clashes between their rival army factions erupted in the capital on December 15 and spread across the impoverished country, killing thousands of people and uprooting more than a million.