Troops from South Sudan try to recapture the oil hub of Bentiu, but rebels have been forced back.
Government Troops advanced towards the town centre over the weekend with an armored column. The town has changed hands several times since fighting broke out in South Sudan last December. Government forces moved into the town, the capital of Unity State. Its appears at least a section of the troops have been forced to retreat. The fighting comes after the US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he had secured an agreement from President Kiir and Mr Machar for peace talks to be held in Addis Ababa. The power struggle between the two men - who fought together in the civil war before South Sudan's independence - has increasingly taken on an ethnic dimension.
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