China to Send 700 Troops to S. Sudan, 1st Infantry UN Mission
(FNA)- China will send 700 troops to South Sudan as part of the country’s first infantry battalion to participate in a UN peacekeeping mission.
Next month, 180 of the troops will fly to South Sudan followed by the rest of the battalion in March, according to a Xinhua report.
The battalion has drones, armored infantry carriers, anti-tank missiles, mortars and other weapons for self-defense purposes, AP said.
More than 2,000 Chinese peacekeepers are posted in conflict zones around the world.
South Sudan has been engulfed in civil war over the past year after its secession from Sudan in 2011.