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South Sudan: Govt Rejects 4,000 Additional UN Peacekeepers
Al Jazeera, 11 January 2017
South Sudan has announced it would no longer accept the deployment of a United Nations regional protection force. Read more »
The government has turned down thousands of extra peacekeepers to support the soldiers already in the country, saying that the government has the "ability to provide security and stability".
Peacekeepers patrol a South Sudanese village (file photo).
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