John Kerry smiling on a coffee table in Ethiopia, August 2013 (Photo: Getty images)
May 01, 2014(VOA) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his counterparts from Ethiopia, Uganda and Kenya have agreed that South Sudan needs a legitimate force to help stabilize the country, which has seen months of deadly violence.
Kerry and the three foreign ministers met Thursday in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, to talk about how to get neighboring South Sudan’s warring sides to agree to halt the fighting.
The United States has already threatened travel and financial sanctions against those responsible for violence that has displaced more than a million people.
A senior State Department official has said Kerry planned to deliver “tough messages” for both the South Sudanese government and rebels during his visit to Africa this week.
State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said Wednesday that Kerry would use his multi-stop trip in…
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