SOUTH SUDAN: US Secretary of State John Kerry called yesterday for the deployment of a 4,000-strong UN force in South Sudan, where civil war reignited earlier this year.

“This is not an intervention force, it is a protection force, with a very clear mandate to protect people,” he said after meeting regional foreign ministers in Nairobi, Kenya.

South Sudan’s warlord President Salva Kiir has already rejected an African Union proposal for a stabilisation force.