A senior official in South Sudan said Saturday that government troops will attack the main rebel stronghold if rebels turn down a proposed cease-fire.
The government had offered the truce on Friday to end two weeks of ethnic violence that has killed more than a thousand people.
Those rebel forces are loyal to former Vice President Riek Machar, accused by supporters of President Salva Kiir of leading a coup attempt two weekends ago that sparked violence across the country.
Machar is skeptical of a truce, the BBC reports, saying