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South Sudan accepts deployment of IGAD troops

South Sudan President Salva Kiir.

Addis Ababa: South Sudan's government on Friday agreed to allow a regional protection force to be deployed in the country, a regional development group said, following fighting between rival groups last month in the country's capital, Juba.

Such a force has been a key demand of former vice president Riek Machar, the leader of one of the factions involved in last month's fighting.

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