US Special Envoy Calls for African Troops in South Sudan

U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan and South Sudan Donald Booth called Friday for the rapid deployment of a regional force in South Sudan to protect teams monitoring the country's shaky ceasefire. “Key to achieving a real cessation of hostilities will be the deployment of monitors,” Booth told journalists in today's telephone news conference. “There is a monitoring and verification mission established by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, or IGAD. Those monitors are...

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