Blue Helmets are in danger of extinction

Priyanka Chowdhury has spent seven years working in South Sudan. The security situation in the African country — the youngest in the world — is difficult: violence between supporters of Salva Kiir and Riek Machar, bitter enemies, threatens to reignite the civil conflict that ravaged one of the poorest lands on the planet last decade. Neighboring Sudan to the north is pressing at the border in a brutal war between the army and paramilitaries. Still, Chowdhury resists conceding that this is the worst moment since she became spokesperson for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).

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