South Africa is sure to get voted on to the council today, Friday, but wants to win by a landslide to show it has still got a lot of international support.
Hard decisions on Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Somalia and several other conflicts are likely to confront South Africa if it takes its seat on the UN Security Council on 1 January next year, as it almost certainly will.
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