UN Hopes to Have Peacekeeping Reinforcements in Strife-torn South Sudan Within 48 Hours

by Gary Kopycinski on December 26, 2013

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South Sudan–(ENEWSPF)–26 December 2013 – The United Nations hopes to have peacekeeping reinforcements on the ground in strife-torn South Sudan within the next 48 hours, including both troops and critical assets such as helicopters, as it seeks to protect civilians in a conflict that is already estimated to have claimed well over 1,000 lives, the top UN official in the country said today.