By LARA JAKES AP National Security Writer
Secretary of state John will meet with African Union leaders to discuss security issues confronting the sub-Saharan region, including South Sudan.(Photo: AP)
April 30, 2014, [ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP)] — Secretary of State John Kerry is bringing his two main tools of diplomacy — peace talks and threatened sanctions — to Africa this week to help find a way to end months of killing that threatens to rip apart the world’s newest nation, South Sudan.
It’s not yet clear whether the U.S. will impose the sanctions while Kerry is in South Sudan — which, he said recently, he planned to visit during a week of stops that also include Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Angola. U.S. officials are still trying to persuade three of South Sudan’s immediate neighbors to issue similar penalties against people on both sides of the brutal fighting.
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