South Sudan's former vice president Riek Machar said he was ready to initiate a dialogue with President Salva Kiir, the Sudan Tribune reported Thursday, according to dpa. Machar said he wanted talks to take place in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and submitted a list of delegates to a group of East African mediators. Leaders of several East African nations were meeting Thursday in Juba to try to resolve the South Sudan conflict. Kiir has expressed a willingness to negotiate an end to the fighting.