reporter: good morning. those states of emergency being declared in two areas. unity state, which is where the vast majority of south sudan s oil fields are located and also a state of jungle both areas are mostly under rebel control. the government has been arriving at the ethiopian capital for the talks. the fights is fairly intense. the talks are the issue, they are not going to lead to an immediate cease-fire. if a cease-fire is implement because the violence here has taken on such an ethnic nature does not necessarily mean at this stage that the killing is going to stop. at least a thousand people so f47 have lost their+0v3รท lives another 180,000 internally displaced and only half of them have been able to seek sanctuary at u.n. compounds.
many cases, in the morn part of the country, where a lot of the fighting is. a place called the unity state, which has a lot of the oil fields there. then there s the town where many, many people say that there s been widespread destruction and looting in bor. many people had to flee their homes. the number of killed in that conflict, numbers in the thousands. and tens of thousands of people, apparently approaching 100,000 people, who have been displaced or are seeking refuge in many of the u.n. bases. u.n. peacekeepers are not properly equipped to defend those bases against militias, but the united nations has decided to send in more peacekeepers. very volatile situation. the u.s. keeping a very close eye on this with those marines poised to go in there and defend the u.s. embassy, should the situation there get out of control. carol? frederik pleitgen reporting
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