JUBA (Reuters) - China will send 700 soldiers to a U.N. peacekeeping force in South Sudan later this year to protect civilians amid a rebellion in the African country, a U.N. official said on Wednesday, denying a report they were already being deployed.
The Wall Street Journal had quoted a spokesman for South Sudan's president as saying the airlift of a Chinese infantry battalion to the South Sudanese states of Unity and Upper Nile was under way and would be completed in several days.
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