Xinhua Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/xinhua/ The low down on African affairs Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Xinhua Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/xinhua/ 32 32 China blue helmets for South Sudan https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/china-blue-helmets-south-sudan/ Sun, 21 Dec 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/12/china-blue-helmets-south-sudan/ China’s committed an infantry battalion to peacekeeping operations in South Sudan. The announcement from Beijing comes as President Jacob Zuma moves to the world’s youngest country seeking to mediate peace efforts. The 700 Chinese blue helmets will comprise the first infantry battalion to participate in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. The official […]

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]]> China’s committed an infantry battalion to peacekeeping operations in South Sudan.

The announcement from Beijing comes as President Jacob Zuma moves to the world’s youngest country seeking to mediate peace efforts.

The 700 Chinese blue helmets will comprise the first infantry battalion to participate in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan.

The official Xinhua News Agency says 180 of the troops will fly to South Sudan next month.

They’ll be followed by the rest of the battalion in March.

The agency says they’ll be equipped with drones, armoured infantry carriers, anti-tank missiles, mortars and other weapons for self-defence purposes.

President Jacob Zuma’s visiting Tanzania and Uganda, seeing his counterparts today and tomorrow.

He’ll talk to President Salva Kiir in Juba and rebel leader Riek Machar in efforts aimed ending the civil war that’s engulfed South Sudan this past year.

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