200 Peacekeepers soldiers sent to South Sudan

soldiers sent to South Sudan for Peacekeepers

The weekend Ethiopia send 200 peacekeepers to South Sudan to help  stabilize the war torn east African nation,an Ethiopian official said on Tuesday.

Meles Alem, spokesperson for the Ethiopia Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Xinhua that the peacekeepers were sent in line with a United Nations resolution to stabilize South Sudan.

The U.N. Security Council in December last year voted to increase the number of security personnel in the war-torn country. The unanimously adopted resolution 2327 sought to push the overall personnel to 17,000 military and 2,101 police. Also extended the mandate of its mission – the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) – to December 2017 and handed it powers to protect civilians who were the worst affected by the crisis.

Several rounds of peace negotiations mediated by the African Union, the regional body Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), and the UN have so far failed to stop the bloodshed.

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in the civil war. Four million others have been displaced internally and fled to foreign countries.