UGANDA has deployed an unknown number of troops to South Sudan in a bid to protect the fragile government of President Salva Kiir, it was reported today. 

This comes as a tense rivalry with President Kiir’s deputy threatens a return to civil war in the east African nation.

Ugandan special forces have been deployed to Juba, the South Sudanese capital, “to support the government of South Sudan” against a possible rebel advance on the city, Major General Felix Kulayigye, a spokesperson for the Ugandan military, said today.