UN Rushes Troops to Protect South Sudanese Civilians
Talks to end the four-year civil war are resuming.
A United Nations humanitarian visit to a camp for Internally Displaced Persons near Kadugli on May 13, 2018
Photographer: Ashraf Shazly/AFP/Getty Images
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Peacekeepers were rushed to South Sudan’s north to protect civilians targeted in clashes between government forces and rebels, the United Nations said, as talks to end the over four-year civil war resumed.
The UN is adding as many as 150 further troops in the Unity region, where at least 30 settlements have been attacked and there’s been “deliberate killing of civilians” and the “sexual violation and abduction of women and children,” the local mission said Thursday in a statement. Thousands of civilians have fled the violence.