UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - South Sudan's President Salva Kiir raised concerns on Saturday about U.N. peacekeepers focusing on protecting civilians amid renewed violence - as instructed by the U.N. Security Council - instead of state-building in the world's newest nation.
Fighting erupted in South Sudan in December after months of tension sparked by Kiir's decision to fire rival and former Vice President Riek Machar. Deep ethnic divisions have also fuelled the violence, pitting Kiir's Dinka people against Machar's Nuer.
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