Sudan rivals try to resolve split

Mr Kiir is also the country's national vice-president

South Sudan's leader Salva Kiir is travelling to meet the president in an effort to resolve a crisis that has threatened to tear the country apart.
Mr Kiir's ex-rebel group withdrew its ministers from government last week saying elements of a 2005 north-south peace pact were being ignored.

President Omar al-Bashir agreed in part to a request for a cabinet reshuffle.

But border demarcations and redeploying northern troops from the south are some of the things yet to be implemented.

The tznews in the capital, Khartoum, says tensions have been brewing for months between the southern Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) and the governing National Congress Party.

The two signed the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) two years ago that ended the 21-year civil war.

Under the CPA, the SPLM controls the southern regional government and participates in the national government in Khartoum.

But the enemies in war have struggled to become partners in peace, our reporter says.