Africa

South Sudan Accepts Plan By IGAD To Deploy Regional Force

South Sudan’s government has agreed to allow the deployment of a regional protection force, the regional Africa group Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said.

The decision follows ethnically charged fighting last month in the capital Juba.

“The government of South Sudan has accepted (the deployment of troops) with no condition,” the secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), Mahboub Maalim, said after a special summit of the group’s leaders in Ethiopia.

Williams Osewezina

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