Their arrival in the next few weeks  in the next weeks will be one Britain’s largest operational deployments worldwide.

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The Whitehall statement says the first of the British troops, proudly wearing their distinctive blue UN berets, arrives in Juba today to join the United Nations Mission in South Sudan.

The British contingent is the first to join the 13 000-member UNMISS force since it was set up in 2011.

It is made up of medics and military engineers. The engineers will be deployed at UN camps housing displaced civilians in Bentiu and Malakal in the north, where they will help improve routes, security and drainage

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