The US state department has ordered non-essential personnel to leave the U.S. Embassy in Juba.
The decision is in response to ongoing violence between troops loyal to South Sudan's President Salva Kiir and those backing his deputy, Riek Machar. [PRO: re-ak ma-shar]
Some 300 people are thought to have died in the fighting.
Kevin McAleese reports from Washington
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