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Members of the Nepalese battalion man a guard post that overlooks a protection-of-civilians site in Juba in May 2015. Nepalese forces help to protect civilians in South Sudan by patrolling across the country, facilitating the safe delivery of humanitarian
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Peace deal holds in South Sudan, but humanitarian funding ‘ultimately unsustainable,’ says top UN envoy

September’s UN-backed South Sudan peace agreement is holding and has led to positive change, but tens of thousands of civilians in the war-weary nation are still reliant of life-saving humanitarian assistance, and time is running out. This was the message that David Shearer, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for South Sudan, relayed to the Security Council on Friday.