4,000 additional UN peacekeepers rejected

South Sudan has announced it would no longer accept the deployment of a United Nations regional protection force. The UN deployment force, made up of 4,000 military personnel, were rejected in a statement made by South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Mawein Makol Ariik on Wednesday. “The government of South Sudan has the ability to provide […]

South Sudan has announced it would no longer accept the deployment of a United Nations regional protection force.
The UN deployment force, made up of 4,000 military personnel, were rejected in a statement made by South Sudan’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Mawein Makol Ariik on Wednesday.
“The government of South Sudan has the ability to provide security and stability for the country and for its citizens without the deployment of a … protection force,” he said.
The force, authorised by the UN Security Council in August following renewed fighting in the capital Juba, is meant to strengthen the 13,500 UN peacekeeping mission that have been in the country since it gained independence in 2011.