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UN begins pullout from South Sudan civilian protection camps

by Associated Press
| September 4, 2020 10:03 AM

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan said Friday it has begun withdrawing its troops and police from the civilian protection camps that began as a frantic experiment in the heat of civil war and still shelter more than 180,000 people two years after the conflict ended.

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