The United Nations (UN) Security Council Tuesday, December 24, 2013, authorized almost doubling the United Nations peacekeeping force in strife-torn South Sudan to nearly 14,000 in the face of a rapidly deteriorating security and humanitarian crisis that has left hundreds of civilians dead and tens of thousands of others driven from their homes.
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| The peacekeepers are members of the Indian contingent of the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS). |