NO REQUEST FOR MORE PEACEKEEPERS

China’s Ministry of National Defense said on Thursday it has not received a United Nations’ invitation to send more peacekeepers to South Sudan.

Ministry spokesman Geng Yansheng said China will make “comprehensive consideration of various factors and examine the bodies in a rebel-held town.

Kiir and Machar have both said their dispute is political, not tribal. But many of the 45,000 civilians seeking refuge inside UN bases across the country say they have been targeted related matters” if the UN submits such a request.

There are 331 Chinese UN peacekeepers in South Sudan, including an engineering team, a medical team and several military observers, the ministry said.

The Chinese embassy in South Sudan said about half of the 2,300 Chinese living in the country have based on their ethnicity.

“It’s definitely not a good Christmas here in the abyss of war,” said Chan Awol, a 30- year- old civil servant whose family has scattered across South Sudan since the been evacuated from the conflict area, while 570 remain in Juba, the capital.

China National Petroleum Corp has started to evacuate its Chinese workers from the country, with 314 of them scheduled to arrive in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on Thursday. fighting started.

“Nobody wants to go back to the days when there were no schools, no hospitals and no roads. Above all, no South Sudanese wants to be a refugee again.”