S Sudan rebels take most of strategic city of Bor

S Sudan rebels take most of strategic city of Bor

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — Anti-government rebels in South Sudan took control of nearly all of a strategic city today, even as officials announced that representatives from the government and the rebels agreed to hold talks for the first time. The announcement that talks would soon take place in neighboring Ethiopia was the first political breakthrough since ethnically-based violence began coursing through South Sudan late on Dec. 15. The violence has killed more than 1,000 people — a number that is believed to be a low estimate — and has seen the country’s two most powerful ethnic groups fight each other.