South Sudan government rejects foreign troops, backs protest
JUBA- South Sudan's government on Wednesday organized a protest against the deployment of foreign troops to secure its capital after recent clashes between opposing army factions left hundreds dead.
The African Union this week called for a "regional protection force" to bolster a 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission in the East African country and separate warring parties. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has supported reinforcing the mission.
The spokesman for South Sudan's former rebel leader Riek Machar, now first vice president, says Machar has also called for a "third force" to secure the capital, Juba, after President Salva Kiir's forces bombed his house during the fighting that raised fears of a return to civil war.
