Africa: Key Opposition Leaders Back Kiir Rejection of AU Troop Deployment

Key senior members of the opposition faction led by Vice President Riek Machar have pledged allegiance to President Salva Kiir and rejected a AU recent approval of additional foreign troops to be deployed in South Sudan.

Taban Deng Gai, former opposition chief negotiator and Mining minister in the unity government declared that they have agreed to back President Kiir's stance and oppose the foreign military intervention.

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