South Sudan: Wau - UN Pledges More Troops to Calm Tense Situation

20 December 2012

Juba — The United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) will deploy more peacekeepers in Wau, the capital of South Sudan's Western Bahr el Ghazal state to calm a situation, it describes as "tense".

Thousands of civilians, according to the mission, fled the violence in Wau on Wednesday and have reportedly camped at the UN base in the area.

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