South Sudan Rejects Regional Troop Deployment by UN

The South Sudan government says it rejects a draft resolution being circulated at the U.N. Security Council, calling for deployment of a regional protection force to Juba and other parts of the country wracked by violence. The Juba government's information minister, Michael Makuei, said such a force would be unacceptable if it is supervised by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), and that it would undermine South Sudan's sovereignty. The United States has...

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