{"id":34322,"date":"2017-05-03T09:51:40","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/britain-sending-400-troops-to-join-un-s-s-sudan\/"},"modified":"2017-05-03T09:51:30","modified_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:51:30","slug":"britain-sending-400-troops-to-join-un-s-s-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/britain-sending-400-troops-to-join-un-s-s-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain sending 400 troops to join UN&#8217;s S.Sudan force"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{About 400 British soldiers will join the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan in the next weeks in one of Britain&#8217;s largest operational deployments worldwide, the force said Tuesday.}<\/p>\n<p>A statement said the first of the British troops, &#8220;proudly wearing their distinctive blue UN berets, arrives in Juba today to join the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The British contingent, the first to join the 13,000-member UNMISS force since it was set up in 2011, is made up of medics and military engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The engineers will be deployed at UN camps housing displaced civilians in Bentiu and Malakal in the north, where they will help improve routes, security and drainage.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 80 medics will staff a hospital in Bentiu that provides care for civilians as well as for the 1,800 UN peacekeepers based there.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment of the troops comes three weeks after Britain&#8217;s International Development Minister Priti Patel said the targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan amounted to &#8220;genocide&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>But the decision to join UNMISS dates back to the former government headed by David Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>After gaining independence from Sudan in 2011, the country descended into war in December 2013, leaving tens of thousands dead and more than 3.5 million people displaced.<\/p>\n<p>More than 1.9 million people are internally displaced and more than 1.7 million have fled to safety across the country&#8217;s borders.<\/p>\n<p>In February, South Sudan and the United Nations formally declared a famine in parts of northern Unity State affecting 100,000 people, a disaster UN officials said was &#8220;man-made&#8221; and could have been averted.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-19763 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pix-34.jpg\" alt=\"A boy suffering from cholera and severe malnutrition sits on the floor of a tent converted into a temporary field hospital near the remote village of Dor, South Sudan on April 28, 2017. About 400 British soldiers will join the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan.\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{About 400 British soldiers will join the UN peacekeeping force in South Sudan in the next weeks in one of Britain&#8217;s largest operational deployments worldwide, the force said Tuesday.} A statement said the first of the British troops, &#8220;proudly wearing their distinctive blue UN berets, arrives in Juba today to join the United Nations Mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-34322","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34322"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=34322"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=34322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}