{{U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Danish diplomat Ellen Margrethe Loj as his new special envoy to South Sudan and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world’s newest nation.}}<\/p>\n
Loj replaces Hilde Johnson of Norway, who stood down this month after three years in the job and amid renewed violence sparked by a power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar.<\/p>\n
The conflict has reopened deep ethnic tensions in the South Sudan, which only won independence from Sudan in 2011, pitting Kiir’s Dinka against Machar’s Nuer. <\/p>\n
Thousands of civilians have been killed and more than a million forced to flee their homes since December, prompting U.N. warnings of a looming famine.<\/p>\n
Ban said Loj “brings to the position a wealth of experience in peacekeeping and international affairs, having served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General to the United Nations Mission in Liberia from 2008 to 2012.”<\/p>\n
She has also been Denmark’s ambassador to the Czech Republic, the United Nations and Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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