UN Peacekeepers Arrive In South Sudan

The United Nations have announced that a group of British peacekeepers have arrived in South Sudan to help the UN with their peacekeeping mission in the country.

The peacekeepers arrived in South Sudan’s capital of Juba.

A spokesperson for the United Nation’s peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, Ariane Quentier, said that five British peacekeepers have arrived in the city.

They are the first of a total of 379 British troops that will be deployed to South Sudan to aid in the UN’s mission.

The British peacekeepers will join 11 990 other peacekeepers who hail from various different countries.

The UN has been initialising their mission in South Sudan for the past two years after the civil war broke out.

They offer shelter and help to those in need and are trapped by the violence in the country.

According to their figures, the UN has said that there are about 170 000 civilians living in United Nations bases around the country, and 100 000 alone in their Bentiu base.

The spokesperson said that the British troops arriving will mainly carry weapons and form an engineering battalion which will deploy in Bentiu.