Voice of America: UN Urged to Consider Drones, Gunships for South Sudan Mission

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Voice of America Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries

UN Urged to Consider Drones, Gunships for South Sudan Mission Jul 8th 2013, 22:15, by webdesk@voanews.com (Reuters) The United Nations should consider deploying surveillance drones and helicopter gunships in South Sudan because peacekeepers are struggling to protect civilians from violence and rights abuses, the U.N. special envoy to South Sudan said on Monday.   Hilde Johnson told the U.N. Security Council that after a U.N. civilian helicopter was shot down in December, new safety procedures and a lack of military helicopters - the peacekeepers have only three - had slowed the mission's ability to ... Media files: 50FDCADA-28F5-4B33-9B15-9BFC056AEFFD_cx0_cy0_cw0_w800_r1.jpg (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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