On Peacekeepers Day, UN Vows to Protect South Sudanese
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U.N. Special Representative for the Republic of South Sudan, Hilde Johnson, shown at a VOA town hall in Juba in March, says tthe deaths in an ambush of five U.N. peacekeepers from India and 7 staff members bolstered the U.N. mission's resolve to protect South Sudanese civilians.
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UNMISS has tripled the number of troops it has in Jonglei state, where David Yau Yau's rebels have relaunched an insurgency.
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Restive Jonglei state in South Sudan is one of the "greatest challenges" facing the U.N. mission in the country, U.N. Special Representative Hilde Johnson says.
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A handout picture released by the UN on January 5, 2012 shows internally displaced persons resting in Pibor, Jonglei state after fleeing the surrounding areas following a wave of bloody ethnic violence.