The military’s Africa Command says the troops were sent to Juba to safeguard the U.S. Embassy and help carry out a State Department order for non-essential personnel to leave the country.
Other countries including Germany and India are taking steps to evacuate personnel as a tenuous cease-fire declared by South Sudan's rival leaders Monday continues to hold.
A spokesman for opposition leader and Vice President Riek Machar says Machar and his troops have withdrawn from Juba “to avoid further confrontation.”...
[voanews.com]
13/7/16
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