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Obama deploys nearly 50 troops to South Sudan

By Nicole Duran
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Obama deploys nearly 50 troops to South Sudan

President Obama deployed 47 troops to South Sudan on Tuesday, according to a notification he send to Congress on Wednesday.

Britain, Germany and Uganda are among the countries that have evacuated their diplomats as the four-year civil war that subsided amid a peace deal last summer led to more bloodshed in the recently established country’s capital of Juba.

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