US Sends 40 Soldiers to Protect Embassy, Personnel in South Sudan

The U.S. military has deployed about 40 soldiers to South Sudan’s capital following days of clashes that left hundreds dead and raised fears of renewed civil war.

The military’s Africa Command says the troops were sent to Juba to safeguard the U.S. Embassy and help carry out a State Department order for non-essential personnel to leave the country.

Other countries including Germany and India are taking steps to evacuate personnel as a tenuous cease-fire declared by South Sudan's rival leaders Monday continues to hold.

A spokesman for opposition leader and Vice President Riek Machar says Machar and his troops have withdrawn from Juba “to avoid further confrontation.”...
 [voanews.com]
13/7/16
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