500 UNMISS Staff Evacuated to Uganda

{{Over 500 staff of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) have been relocated to Uganda over security fears.}}

The staff are part of the UN team that was working in South Sudan where war guns are currently sounding.

the UNMISS head Hilde Johnson says the growing hostility towards UNMISS staff in South Sudan has forced them to relocate over 500 staff that are non critical at the moment to the UN base in Entebbe.

The relocation of the staff was started on 21st December last year with the relocation of 40 UN staff from battle grounds in Bentiu to Juba before finally bringing them to Entebbe.

A day later, another 450 members of the UNMISS were relocated to Entebbe.

Fighting in South Sudan has intensified with armed militia attacking UN bases in areas of Bor.

The attack of UN bases forced the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces to take over control of the UN camp in Bor for two days.

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