South Sudan Government Signals Acceptance of East African Force
- Proposed deployment would protect displaced, aid-workers
- Plan comes in wake of renewed violence that killed hundreds
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South Sudan’s government said it accepts “in principle” an additional regional peacekeeping force after a power-sharing deal broke down last month when violence escalated and claimed hundreds of lives.
The proposed East African force would protect displaced people, aid workers and mediators, a government delegation said in an e-mail after meeting African leaders in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, on Friday. The “composition, mandate, armament, deployment, timing and funding shall be agreed” by the government and peacekeeping nations, it said.