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                 US Plane Hit in South Sudan, Americans Wounded

   The U.S. military says unidentified gunmen have opened fire on at least
   one U.S. military plane involved in a rescue mission in South Sudan.
   The U.S. Africa Command says four U.S. service members were wounded
   during the incident on Saturday, which took place as the U.S. was
   trying to evacuate Americans from Bor, a city recently overrun by
   rebels.
   In a statement, the military says it aborted the mission after the
   plane came under fire and diverted the aircraft to an airfield outside
   South Sudan.
   Bor has been the scene of some of South Sudan`s worst fighting during
   the past week.
   The violence erupted after President Salva Kiir, a Dinka, accused
   former vice president Riek Machar, a Nuer, of attempting a coup. The
   Juba government says more than 500 people have been killed, and the
   unrest has forced tens of thousands of people to flee from their homes.
   There are reports of fresh fighting in some regions on Saturday.
   U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he is sending a special envoy
   to South Sudan to encourage talks between opposing factions. Ambassador
   Donald Booth is heading to the region as soon as possible.
   The U.N. Security Council president said Friday that South Sudan`s
   President Kiir and former vice president Machar have agreed to
   "unconditional dialogue" despite their recent history of bitter
   recriminations. Mediators from East African countries met with Mr. Kiir
   Friday in what they called productive talks, but what form the
   Kiir-Machar "dialogue" will take is unclear.
   On Friday, the U.N. said at least 11 civilians and two peacekeepers had
   been killed in an attack a day earlier on a U.N. base in the town of
   Akobo.
   The U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) says the peacekeepers and
   civilians were shot after about 2,000 armed youth, believed to be
   ethnic Nuers, surrounded the base and opened fire on members of the
   Dinka ethnic group taking shelter at the U.N. compound.
   About 35,000 civilians are believed to have fled to U.N. compounds
   since the latest unrest began.
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