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South Sudan leader ‘consents’ to extra UN peacekeepers

4 September 2016, 9:05 pm
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South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir has agreed to the deployment of a regional protection force to beef up the UN’s large UN peacekeeping mission, a joint statement from the UN and the government says.

“The transitional government of national unity gives its consent for the deployment of the regional force,” says the statement, which was read out to the media by South Sudanese Cabinet Affairs Minister Martin Elia Lomoro.

Internally displaced people recently arrived in Wau, South Sudan, due to armed clashes in surrounding villages, waiting to be registered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on May 11, 2016 (AFP PHOTO / ALBERT GONZALEZ FARRAN)
Internally displaced people recently arrived in Wau, South Sudan, due to armed clashes in surrounding villages, waiting to be registered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the World Food Programme (WFP) on May 11, 2016 (AFP/Albert Gonzalez Farran)

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