South Sudan's government on
Friday agreed to allow the deployment of a regional protection
force, the regional Africa group IGAD said, following ethnically
charged fighting last month in the capital Juba.
The new deal was renegotiated by President Salva Kiir and First Vice President Taban Deng.
"The government of South Sudan has accepted (the deployment
of troops) with no condition," Mahboub Maalim, the secretary of
the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), said
after a special summit of the group's leaders in Ethiopia.
The summit was attended by various dignitaries and heads of state,
