South Sudan rejects US proposal for additional peacekeepers

‘South Sudan has rejected Washington’s proposal for the UN Security Council to send 4,000 additional peacekeeping troops to the African country.
Michael Makuei, a spokesman for the government in Juba, said on Wednesday that the proposal gives the United Nations the ability to govern and “seriously undermines” South Sudan’s sovereignty.
The South Sudanese government official also stated that the proposal would allow the peacekeepers to “engage in combat,” adding, “If South Sudan is turned into a UN protectorate, then this is not the end of the game but the beginning.”‘
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