Chinese battalion deployed to protect South Sudan oil facilities
September 10, 2014 | Politics & Social Unrest, Sudan & South Sudan
Juba, South Sudan | – China has begun deploying 700 soldiers to a U.N. peacekeeping force in South Sudan to protect oil fields and Chinese workers amid a rebellion in the African country, The Wall Street Journal reported. The newspaper quoted a spokesman for South Sudan’s president as saying on Tuesday that the airlift of a Chinese infantry battalion to the South Sudanese states of Unity and Upper Nile was expected to take several days. China is the biggest investor in South Sudan’s oil industry. …