UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday named Danish diplomat Ellen Margrethe Loj as his new special envoy to South Sudan and head of the U.N. peacekeeping mission in the world's newest nation.
Loj replaces Hilde Johnson of Norway, who stood down this month after three years in the job, amid renewed violence sparked by a power struggle between President Salva Kiir and his sacked deputy Riek Machar.
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