South Sudan: Army Concedes Delayed Payments Caused Desertions

6 August 2014

Juba — A top South Sudanese army (SPLA) general acknowledged on Wednesday that delays in salary payments was the cause of a series of desertions in June.

At the time a number of soldiers, mostly those recruited from the Bahr el Ghazal region, abandoned their positions on the frontline and returned to their homes amid claims of preferential treatment of foreign troops.

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