麻豆社

The United Nations is to deploy extra troops to South Sudan to help ease tensions. President Salva Kiir "very serious concerns" over the internationally-backed plan.

And the UN is facing allegations that it did not act to stop South Sudanese soldiers rampaging through a hotel complex, killing a journalist and raping several women. The UN Mission's Force Commander is senior Kenyan soldier, Lieutenant General Johnson Mogoa Kimani Ondieki.

(Picture - UN soldiers from Rwanda patrol Juba as part of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) in March, 2015. Credit: The Asahi Shimbun via Getty Images)