The United Nations will begin deploying a regional protection force to South Sudanese capital “in the next few weeks.”
This is revealed by the U.N. peacekeeping Chief, Hervé Ladsous who was speaking this Tuesday, at the end of a two-day visit to the country.
Ladsous says the first troops to arrive for the regional protection force will be from Rwanda, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Ethiopia.
The 4,000-strong protection force was authorized by the Security Council in August of last year, in response to a surge in violence in the country.
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