The United States will sanction both sides of the South Sudan conflict in days, intelligence sources report.
Ethnic violence in the country is likely to spark a genocide and the United States is to impose sanctions on the political class on both sides of the conflict.
The government of South Sudan, GOSS leadership will be a victim while the rebel leader and his advisers and rebel commanders will also face serious sanctions.
Sanctions to imposed include travel bans to the United States and assets freeze under US law.
Already the rebel leader Riek Marchar is one of the people the US is targeting after he rebuffed the need to meet with the president and start peace talks immediately as requested by US secretary of State, John Kerry.
John Kerry was in South Sudan and met the president Salva Kiir who made a commitment to end hostilities as soon as possible.
The government side is also going to be facing the sanctions since they breached the peace pact by staging attacks on rebel strongholds of Bentiu and Nasir shortly after US Secretary of State John Kerry left the country.
